Letter 9011: I received your letter, which afforded me great pleasure, especially as you say that you wish me to write you...
To Geminus.
I received your letter, which afforded me great pleasure, especially as you say that you wish me to write you something to be inserted in your books. I will find a subject, either the one you suggest or some other, for there are certain objections to yours, as you will see if you look around you. I did not think that there were any booksellers at Lugdunum, and I am delighted to hear from you that my books are being sold there, for it is gratifying to find that they retain in foreign parts the popularity they have won at Rome. I begin to think that they must be fairly perfect when there is such unanimity about their merits in lands so far apart and in the judgment of persons so dissimilar. Farewell.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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