Letter 74: I have just sent you my treatise [A Eulogy of Baldness], written in Attic style and finished with care.
Letter 74: The "Eulogy of Baldness"
[1] To Pylaemenes
I have just sent you the treatise, written in Attic style and of finished workmanship. note [ A Eulogy of Baldness .] If it obtains the approbation of Pylaemenes, the most critical of our audience, this very fact will be quite sufficient to recommend it to posterity. [2] But if my book seems to you a frivolous production, remember that it is always permissible to treat light subjects lightly.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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