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 be happy, I could find it more easy to believe that he would be happy than that he would be able, while baking in the brass, to muse the while on an exordium or write pointed phrases.

Then when after a long interval I had recovered my health, I turned to other matters in preference. I took a dislike to that speech, and will not be ashamed to confess hatred and aversion So the speech has come back home to me after I had publicly disowned it, and taken up its abode with me again

? 162 A.D.

to Praecilius Pompeianus, greeting.

My very dear friend Pompeianus, read Venetus is for sale. You know that it is the perpetual fate of Venetus to be always going, never gone He writes in answer that he has never received my letter

? 162 A.D.

to Claudius Julianus, greeting.

You have had then at home, my Naucellius, Our friendship has been on such a footing that we could dispense with these conventional  91