day applied to the repression of the new.

J.B. FIRTH.



THE LETTERS OF THE YOUNGER PLINY.


BOOK I.


1.I.--TO SEPTICIUS.

You have constantly urged me to collect and publish the more highly
finished of the letters that I may have written. I have made such a
collection, but without preserving the order in which they were
composed, as I was not writing a historical narrative. So I have taken
them as they happened to come to hand. I can only hope that you will
not have cause to regret the advice you gave, and that I shall not
repent having followed it; for I shall set to work to recover such
letters as have up to now been tossed on one side, and I shall not keep
back any that I may write in the future. Farewell.


1.II.--TO ARRIANUS.

As I see that your arrival is likely to be later than I expected, I
forward you the speech which I promised in an earlier letter. I beg
that you will read and revise it as you have done with other