1Your letter was all the more pleasant to me for being so long, especially since it spoke entirely of my little books; 1I am not surprised that they give you pleasure, since you love everything of mine just as you love me. 2At this very moment I am gathering the grape harvest, thin indeed, yet more plentiful than I had expected — if it is gathering now and then to pluck a grape, look in at the press, taste the must from the vat, and steal up on my city slaves, who are now in charge of the country slaves and have left me to my secretaries and readers. 2Farewell.
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Pliny · Epistulae IX
Pliny, Letter 9.20
Gathering a thin vintage
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