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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.

4.

Pliny's Epistles. Book IV.

5.

Pliny's Epistles. Book V.

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6.

Pliny's Epistles. Book VI.

6.1.

Epistle I. To Tyro.

6.2.

Epistle II. To Arrian.

6.3.

Epistle III. To Verus.

6.4.

Epistle IV. To Calphurnia.

6.5.

Epistle V. To Ursus.

6.6.

Epistle VI. To Fundanus.

6.7.

Epistle VII. To Calphurnia.

6.8.

Epistle VIII. To Priscus.

6.9.

Epistle IX. To Tacitus.

6.10.

Epistle X. To Albinus.

6.11.

Epistle XI. To Maximus.

6.12.

Epistle XII. To Fabatus, His Wife's Grandfather.

6.13.

Epistle XIII. To Ursus.

6.14.

Epistle XIV.

6.15.

Epistle XV. To Romanus.

6.16.

Epistle XVI. To Tacitus.

6.17.

Epistle XVIII. To Restitutus.

6.18.

Epistle XVIII. To Sabinus.

6.19.

Epistle XIX. To Cornelius Nepos.

6.20.

Epistle XX. To Tacitus.

6.21.

Epistle XXI. To Caninius.

6.22.

Epistle XXII. To Tyro.

6.23.

Epistle XXIII. To Triarius.

6.24.

Epistle XXIV. To Macer.

6.25.

Epistle XXV. To Hispanus.

6.26.

Epistle XXVI. To Servianus.

6.27.

Epistle XXVII. To Severus.

6.28.

Epistle XXVIII. To Pontius.

6.29.

Epistle XXIX. To Quadratus.

6.30.

Epistle XXX. To Fabatus.

6.31.

Epistle XXXI. To Cornelian.

6.32.

Epistle XXXII. To Quintilian.

6.33.

Epistle XXXIII. To Romanus.

6.34.

Epistle XXXIV. To Maximus.

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Epistle XIV.

by the Same. [Mr. Henley.]

[_]

On his Invitation to Formianum.

YOU press me to come to your House at Formium; I will wait upon you there, upon this Condition, that you put your self to no Inconvenience, on my Account; a Condition, which I lay down as reciprocal. For it is not your Seas and your Shores, but your self, Ease, and Liberty that I court. Otherwise, it would be better to stay in Town. For a Man must do all by his own

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Humour, or another's; now my Stomach is of that Nature, as to digest what is entirely one or the other, without a Medium.