1You write that you are much affected by my absence and have one consolation, that in place of me you hold my books, and often even put them in my place.2I am glad that you miss me, glad that you find comfort in these remedies;2I in turn read and reread your letters and take them up again and again as if they were new.3But I am all the more inflamed with longing for you: for if your letters hold so much charm, how much sweetness lies in your conversation!3Still, write as often as you possibly can, though this delights me in such a way that it torments me.
3Farewell.
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Pliny, Epistulae VI. Latin text: the Perseus digital text of Pliny's Letters, public domain; digital text from the Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA. Word analysis: drafted by our own tagger (trained on the hand-checked texts on this site), with every doubtful word checked by hand. English translation and section titles: written for this app, each checked against the Latin by a second reader.