1I am not surprised that you took the greatest pleasure from that most plentiful kind of hunting, since you write, in the manner of historians, that the number could not be counted. 1I have neither the time nor the inclination to hunt: no time because the vintage is in hand, no inclination because it is meagre. 2However, instead of new wine I am bringing down new verses, and since you demand them so very pleasantly, I shall send them to you as soon as they seem to have finished fermenting. 2Farewell.
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Pliny · Epistulae IX
Pliny, Letter 9.16
Hunting and a poor vintage
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