A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 108 pages of information about A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger.

A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 108 pages of information about A Sixth-Century Fragment of the Letters of Pliny the Younger.
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NUS ETIAM CLARUS SPECTATUS^{Q_UE_}[3] CONTIGE
RIT PATER QUOQ_UE_ ET PATRUUS INLUSTRI LAU
DE CONSPICUI QUIB_US_ OMNIB_US_ ITA DEMUM
SIMILIS ADOLESCET SIBI INBUTUS HONES
TIS ARTIBUS FUERIT QUAS PLURIMUM REFER[4] 15
{.R}{.A}T[5] A QUO POTISSIMUM ACCIPIAT ADHUC
ILLUM PUERITIAE RATIO INTRA CONTUBER
NIUM TUUM TENUIT PRAECEPTORES DOMI
HABUIT UBI EST ERRORIB_US_ MODICA ^{U}E^{L}ST[6] ETIA_M_
NULLA MATERIA IAM STUDIA EIUS EXTRA 20
LIMEN CONFERANDA SUNT IAM CIRCUMSPI
CIENDUS RHETOR LATINUS CUIUS SCHO
LAE SEUERITAS PUDOR INPRIMIS CASTITAS
CONSTET ADEST ENIM ADULESCENTI NOS
TRO CUM CETERIS NATURAE FORTUNAEQ_UE_ 25
DOTIB_US_ EXIMIA CORPORIS PULC^{H}RITUDO[7]
CUI IN HOC LUBRICO AETATIS NON PRAECEP

  [Footnote 1:  inuice:  corrected to unice by cancelling i and
  ui (the cancellation stroke is barely visible) and writing u and
  i above the line.  The correction is by a somewhat later hand.]

  [Footnote 2:  u above the line is by the first hand.]

  [Footnote 3:  q. above the line is added by a somewhat later hand.]

  [Footnote 4:  Final r is added by a somewhat later hand.]

  [Footnote 5:  The dots above ra indicate deletion.  The cancellation
  stroke is oblique.]

  [Footnote 6:  A somewhat later corrector, possibly contemporary,
  changed est to uel by adding u before e and l above s
  and cancelling both s and t.]

  [Footnote 7:  h added above the line by a hand which may be
  contemporary.]

  {fol. 52r}

.LIBER.III.

TOR MODO SED CUSTOS ETIAM RECTORQ_UE_
QUAERENDUS EST UIDEOR ERGO DEMON
STRARE TIBI POSSE IULIUM GEN^{I}TIOREM[1]
AM^{N}ATUR[2] A ME I^{U}DICIO[3] TAMEN MEO NON
OBSTAT KARITAS HOMINIS QUAE ^{EX}[4]IUDI 5
CIO NATA EST UIR EST EMENDATUS ET GRA
UIS PAULO ETIAM HORRIDIOR ET DURIOR
UT IN HAC LICENTIA TEMPORUM QUAN
TUM ELOQUENTIA UALEAT PLURIB_US_ CRE
DERE POTES NAM DICENDI FACULTAS 10
APERTA ET EXPOSITA.STATIM CERNITUR
UITA HOMINUM ALTOS RECESSUS MAG
NASQ_UE_ LATEBRAS HABET CUIUS PRO GE
NITORE ME SPONSOREM ACCIPE NIHIL
EX HOC UIRO FILIUS TUUS AUDIET NISI 15
PROFUTURUM NIHIL DISCET QUOD NESCIS[5]
SE RECTIUS FUERIT NE^{C}[6] MINUS SAEPE AB
ILLO QUAM A TE MEQUE ADMONEBITUR
QUIB_US_ IMAGINIB_US_ ONERETUR QUAE NOMI
NA ET QUANTA SUSTINEAT PROINDE FAUE_N_ 20
TIBUS DIIS TRADE eUM[7] PRAECEPTORI A
QUO MORES PRIMUM MOX ELOQUENTIA_M_
DISCAT QUAE MALE SINE MORIBUS DIS
CITUR UALE

.C.  PLINIUS MACRINO SALUTEM 25

QUAMUIS ET AMICI QUOS PRAESENTES
HABEBAM ET SERMONES HOMINUM

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