1You act most honourably, certainly, in asking and demanding so earnestly that I should order the price of the lands to be accepted from you not at seven hundred thousand, the price at which you bought them from my freedman, but at nine hundred thousand, the price at which you paid the five per cent tax to the tax-farmers. 2In return I too both ask and demand that you consider not only what becomes you but also what becomes me, and allow me in this one matter to oppose you in the same spirit in which I usually comply with you in everything. 2Farewell.
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Pliny · Epistulae VII
Pliny, Letter 7.14
Refusing Corellia's higher price
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