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Pliny · Epistulae IX

Pliny, Letter 9.11

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1I received your most delightful letter, delightful above all because you wanted something to be written to you which could be included in my books. 1Material will turn up, either this very subject which you point out, or a better one. 1For there are some stumbling blocks in this one: cast your eyes around and they will meet you. 2I did not think there were booksellers at Lugdunum, and so I learned all the more gladly from your letter that my little books are on sale there, and I am delighted that abroad they keep the favour they gathered in the city. 2For I begin to think a work fairly finished when the judgements of men separated by such distances of region agree upon it.

2Farewell.

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Pliny, Epistulae IX. 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.