11 surviving letters between Cornelius Tacitus and Pliny the Younger, spanning 100-107 AD.
You will laugh, and I give you leave to.
I am constantly having arguments with a friend of mine who is a learned and practised speaker, but who admires in...
I am delighted that you have returned to Rome, for though your arrival is always welcome, it is especially so to me...
You commend to my notice the candidature of Julius Naso.
You ask me to send you an account of my uncle's death, so that you may be able to give posterity an accurate...
You say that the letter which I wrote to you at your request, describing the death of my uncle, * has made you...
I have read your book * and taken the greatest possible pains in marking the passages which struck me as requiring...
I venture to prophesy - and I know my prognostics are right - that your histories will be immortal, and that, I...
It was not as one master to another, nor as one pupil to another, that you sent me your book - though you say it was...
I am anxious to obey your injunctions, but there is such a scarcity of wild boars that it is quite impossible for me...
Though you never praise your own work, I, for my part, never write with such confidence as when I am writing about you.