Letters Author:Pliny Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Te negotiis distineri ob hoc moleste fero, quod deservire studiis non potes ; si tamen alteram liten1 per iudicem, alteram, ut ais, ipse finicris, incipies primu... more »m istie olio frui, deinde satiatus ad nos reverti. Vale. VIII C. Plinius Frisco Suo S. ExpniMERE non possum, quam iucundum sit mihi, quod SaturninuS noster summas tibi apud me gratias aliis super alias epistulis agit. Perge, ut coepisti, virumque optimum quam familiarissime dilige magnam voluptatem ex amicitia eius percepturus nec ad breve tempus. Nam cum omnibus virtutibus abundat tuin hac praecipue, quod habet maximam in amore con- stantiam. Vale. C. Plinius Fusco Suo S. Quaeris, quem ad modum in secessu, quo iamdiu frueris, putem te studere oportere. Utile in primis, et multi praecipiunt,1 vel ex Graeco in Latinnm, vel ex Latino vertere in Graecum; quo genere exerci- tationis proprietas splendorque verborum, copia figu- rarum, vis explicandi, praeterea imitatione opti- morum similia inveniendi facultas paratur; simul, 1 praecipiunt Ma, Bipons, praeceperunt D, Mi'dler. I regret your immersion in business, as it prevents your devoting yourself to letters ; however, when you have settled one of your two law-suits by arbitration, and the other out of court (as you say you expect to do), you will begin to enjoy the sweets of leisure down yonder ; and when you are satiated with that, we may hope for your return hither. Farewell. VIII To Priscus The warm acknowledgements of your favours which our friend Saturninus repeatedly makes in his letters to me, afford me inexpressible satisfaction. Do you go on as you began, and cherish intimacy with so worthy a man, from whose friendship you will receive a strong and lasting pleasure. For as he is rich in every virtue, so particularly, in that of constancy towar...« less