Pliny the Younger & Sabinus, Guardian (Defensorem)

You ask me to undertake the cause of the town of Firmum, and, though I am up to the eyes in work, I will do my best,...

It is very kind of you to press me to write to you as many letters as possible, and as long as possible.

Your letter proves how attentively, how studiously, and with what powers of memory you have read my books, but you...