3 surviving letters between Arrius Antoninus and Pliny the Younger, spanning 104 AD.
That you, like your ancestors of old, have been twice consul, that you have been proconsul of Asia with a record...
How can I better prove to you how greatly I admire your Greek epigrams than by the fact that I have tried to imitate...
It is when I try to equal your verses that I most fully appreciate how excellent they are.