Letter 10003: The recommendation I make in this letter is made on the basis of genuine knowledge and genuine judgment, not merely...

A small estate of four fields in Bithynia was given to me by my grandmother, and I now give it to you as a token of...

1. I have read the books sent me by your excellency. With the second I was delighted, not only with its brevity, as was likely to be the case with a reader out of health and inclined to indolence, but, because it is at once full of thought, and so arranged that the objections of opponents, and the answers to them, stand out distinctly.

"Time alone proves the just man," as the ancients teach.

Since you do take my jokes kindly, I send you the rest. My prelude is from Homer. Come now and change your theme, And sing of the inner adornment.

What you most desired -- and what you desired, I believe, was a letter from me -- here it is.