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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.

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 XXVIII. To Pontius.

by the Same. [Mr. Henley.]

[_]

He admits his Excuse for not visiting Him.

I Know what has prevented your coming before me into Campania; but tho' absent, you are all here; your People have loaden me with such Plenty of Provisions, both of the Town and Country; which I accepted in general, tho' in a blunt manner. For they importun'd me to do so, and I was tender of giving you a Distaste, either to them or my self, had I done otherwise; but for the future, if you lay no Restraint upon yourself, I shall lay a Restraint upon you. Nay, I told the Bearers, that if they brought so large a Quantity another time, I would return the whole. You will say, that I ought to use your Things as my own: Right, but I would husband them as I do my own.

Farewell.

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