1You have done well in receiving back into your house and into your heart, at the prompting of my letters, a freedman once dear to you. 1This will please you; 1it certainly pleases me, first because I see you so tractable that you can be guided even in anger, and then because you attribute so much to me that you either yield to my authority or grant my prayers. 1So I both praise you and thank you; 1at the same time I advise you for the future to show yourself forgiving towards the faults of your household, even if there should be no one to intercede. 1Farewell.
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Pliny · Epistulae IX
Pliny, Letter 9.24
Thanks for forgiving the freedman
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