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

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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.

  {fol. 53r}

.LIBER.III.

MODESTIA SERMONIS ET RATIO CO_M_
PULIT AUTEM ME AD HOC CONSILIUM NO_N_
SOLUM CONSENSUS SENATUS QUAMQUA_M_
HIC MAXIME UERUM ET ALII QUIDEM
MINORIS SED TAMEN NUMERI UENI 5
EBAT IN MENTEM PRIORES NOSTROS
ETIAM SINGULORUM HOSP{.I}TIUM[1] INIU
RIAS ACCUSATIONIB_US_ UOLUNTARIIS EX
SECUTOS QUO DEFORMIUS ARBITRABAR
PUBLICI ^{H}OSPITII ^{I}URA[2] NEGLEGERE PRAE 10
TEREA CUM RECORDARER QUANTA
PRO IISDEM BAETICIS PRIORE ADUOCA
TIONE ETIAM PERICULA SUBISSEM CO_N_
SERVANDUM UETERIS OFFICII MERITU_M_
NOVO VIDEBATUR EST ENIM ITA COM 15
PARATUM UT ANTIQUIORA BENEFICIA SUB
UERTAS NISI ILLA POSTERIORIB_US_ CUMU
LES NAM QUAMLIBET SAEPE OBLIGA(N)[3]
TI SIQUID[4] UNUM NEGES HOC SOLUM
MEMINERUNT QUOD NEGATUM EST 20
DUCEBAR ETIAM QUOD DECESSERAT
CLASSICUS AMOTUMQ_UE_ ERAT QUOD
I[5]N EIUSMODI CAUSIS SOLET ESSE TRIS
{.T}{.I}TISSIMUM[6] PERICULUM SENATORIS
UIDEBAM ERGO ADUOCATIONI MEAE 25
NON MINOREM GRATIAM QUAM SI
UIUERET ILLE PROPOSITAM INUIDIAM

    Uir erat in terra[7]

  [Footnote 1:  Deletion of i before u is marked by a dot above the
  letter and a slanting stroke through it.]

  [Footnote 2:  h and i above the line are apparently by the first
  hand.]

  [Footnote 3:  n (in brackets) is a later addition.]

  [Footnote 4:  The letters uid are plainly retraced by a later hand. 
  The same hand retouched neges h in the same line.]

  [Footnote 5:  i before n added by a later corrector who erased
  the i which the scribe wrote after quod, in the line above.]

  [Footnote 6:  Superfluous ti cancelled by means of dots and oblique
  stroke.]

  [Footnote 7:  Added by a Caroline hand of the ninth century.]

  {fol. 53v}

.EPISTULARUM.

NULLAM IN SUMMA COMPUTABAM
SI MUNERE HOC TERTIO FUNGERE^{R}[1] FACILI
OREM MIHI EXCUSATIONEM FORE SI
QUIS INCIDISSET QUEM NON DEBEREM
ACCUSARE NAM CUM EST OMNIUM OFFI 5
CIORUM FINIS ALIQUIS TUM OPTIME
LIBERTATI UENIA OBSEQUIO PRAEPARA
TUR AUDISTI CONSILII MEI MOTUS SUPER
EST ALTERUTRA EX PARTE IUDICIUM TUUM
IN QUO MIHI AEQ_UE_ IUCU^{I}NDA[2] ERIT SIM 10
PLICITAS DISSI^{N}TIENTIS[3] QUAM COMPRO
BANTIS AUCTORITAS UALE

.{-C}.PLINIUS MACRO.SUO.SALUTEM

PERGRATUM EST MIHI QUOD TAM DILIGE_N_
TER LIBROS AUONCULI MEI LECTITAS UT 15
HABERE OMNES UELIS QUAERASQ_UE_ QUI
SINT OMNES {.D}{.E}FUNGAR[4] INDICIS PARTIBUS
ATQUE ETIAM QUO SINT ORDINE SCRIPTI
NOTUM TIBI FACIAM EST ENIM HAEC
QUOQ_UE_ STUDIOSIS NON INIUCUNDA COG 20
NITIO DE IACULATIONE EQUESTRI UNUS. 
HUNC CUM PRAEFECTUS ALAE MILITA
RET.  PARI[5] INGENIO CURAQ_UE_ COMPOSUIT. 
DE UITA POMPONI SECUNDI DUO A QUO
SINGULARITER AMATUS HOC MEMORIAE 25
AMICI QUASI DEBITUM MUNUS EXSOL
UIT.BELLORUM GERMANIAE UIGINTI QUIB_US_

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