1I should fear that you might think the speech which you will receive with this letter excessively long, were it not of such a kind that it seems often to begin and often to end. 1For each separate charge contains, as it were, a separate case. 2So wherever you begin and wherever you stop, you will be able to read what follows both as if it were beginning and as if it were connected, and to judge me very long as a whole, very short in my parts. 2Farewell.
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Pliny · Epistulae IX
Pliny, Letter 9.4
A speech of many parts
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