Letter 7008: I cannot tell you how delighted I am that our friend Saturninus sends me letter after letter conveying his best...

Pliny the YoungerPriscus|c. 107 AD|Pliny the Younger
friendship

To Priscus.

I cannot tell you how delighted I am that our friend Saturninus sends me letter after letter conveying his best thanks to you. Go on as you have begun, and let your affection for that worthy man be as intimate as possible. You will find his friendship to be full of charm, and that it will stand wear. For while he abounds in all the virtues, the virtue in which he abounds most is constancy in love. Farewell.

Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.

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