1Thank you for taking on the cultivation of the little farm I had given to my nurse. 1When I gave it, it was worth a hundred thousand sesterces; 1afterwards, as its yield decreased, its value also fell, but now, under your care, it will recover. 2Only remember that what I am entrusting to you is not trees and land, although these too, but my little gift, and that it should be as fruitful as possible matters no more to her who received it than to me who gave it. 2Farewell.
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Pliny · Epistulae VI
Pliny, Letter 6.3
The nurse's little farm
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