Letter 1028: If you have a taste for natural history — the kind Pliny labored over — here are some volumes I happened to have on...
If you have a love for the Natural History that Pliny composed, here for you are the volumes of it, of which I happened to have a copy on hand. In them, as I suppose, a copyist careless of accuracy will displease your abundant learning. But the negligence of correction shall do me no harm; for I preferred to win your approval by the speed of my own gift rather than by the scrutiny of another man's work. Farewell.
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Latin / Greek Original
Si te amor habet naturalis historiae, quam Plinins elaboravit, en tibi libellos,
quomm mihi praesentanea copia fuit. in quis, nt arbitror, opulentoe emditioni tnae
neglegens veritatis librarius displicebit. sed mihi frandi non erit emendationis incuria. 20
malni enim tibi probari mei muneris celeritate, quam alieni operis examine. vale.
XXV (XVnU) a. 379?
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern symmachus retranslated v1.
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