Letter 74: I have just sent you my treatise [A Eulogy of Baldness], written in Attic style and finished with care.
To Pylaemenes.
I have just sent you my treatise [A Eulogy of Baldness], written in Attic style and finished with care. If it wins the approval of Pylaemenes — the most demanding critic in my audience — that alone will be enough to recommend it to posterity. But if the book strikes you as frivolous, remember that it is always permissible to treat light subjects lightly.
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