Letter 1028: If you have a taste for natural history — the kind Pliny labored over — here are some volumes I happened to have on...
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?
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