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 of your brother a history written in no perfunctory spirit would be likely to add some interest and celebrity, just as the blowing even of a light breeze can fan a fire however great.

As soon as your brother sends me his memoranda, I will undertake the writing of a full account, provided however that this, which I send as a foretaste, finds favour

to Lucius Verus.

1. these great exploits wrought by you such as Achilles himself would fain have wrought and Homer written   I am quite afraid that through some novelty and unusualness  I shall have sung something not accordant with songs and measures

2. Sallust : In fact their natural gifts, however rich, would have been of no avail had they not concerned themselves with the writing of their splendid achievements, and likewise were not their talents as writers on a par with the greatness of the deeds   199

