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Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6

The Life of Pliny

1.

Pliny's Epistles Book I

2.

Pliny's Epistles Book II.

3.

Pliny's Epistles. Book III.

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4.

Pliny's Epistles. Book IV.

4.1.

Epistle I. To his Uncle Fabatus.

4.2.

Epistle II. To Clemens.

4.3.

Epistle III. To Antonius.

4.4.

Epistle IV. To Soffius.

4.5.

Epistle V. To Sparsus.

4.6.

Epistle VI. To Naso.

4.7.

Epistle VII. To Lepidus.

4.8.

4.9.

Epistle IX. To Ursus.

4.10.

Epistle X. To Sabinus.

4.11.

Epistle XI. To Minutian.

4.12.

Epistle XII. To Arrian.

4.13.

Epistle XIII. To Cornelius Tacitus.

4.14.

Epistle XIV. To Paternus.

4.15.

Epistle XV. To Fundanus.

4.16.

Epistle XVI. To Valerius Paulinus.

4.17.

Epistle XVII. To Gallus.

4.18.

Epistle XVIII. To Antoninus.

4.19.

Epistle XIX. To Hispulla, his Wife's Aunt.

4.20.

Epistle XX. To Maximus.

4.21.

Epistle XXI. To Velius Cerelis.

4.22.

Epistle XXII. To Sempronius.

4.23.

Epistle XXIII. To Pomponius Bassus.

4.24.

Epistle XXIV. To Valens.

4.25.

Epistle XXV. To Messius Maximus.

4.26.

Epistle XXVI. To Nepos.

4.27.

Epistle XXVII. To Falco.

4.28.

Epistle XXVIII. To Severus.

4.29.

Epistle XXIX. To Romanus.

4.30.

Epistle XXX. To Licinius.

5.

Pliny's Epistles. Book V.

6.

Pliny's Epistles. Book VI.

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Epistle XVIII. To Antoninus.

by the Same. [Mr. Henley.]

[_]

On his Epigrams.

HOW can I better shew you my Approbation of your Greek Epigrams, than by my own Essays to imitate and represent some of them in Latin. Yet this has fallen to a Disadvantage; first by the Weakness of my own Genius; and then by the Barrenness, or rather, as Lucretius Stiles it, the Poverty of our Native Tongue. If these, which are Latin, and my own, seem to you to have any Grace at all, what Beauty do you think they have, which are perform'd by you in the Greek Language?

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