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Rh of antiquity. The text is in Tacitus: you know best where to look for the commentary. JUNIUS.

 

7. October, 1769. SIR,

S you have not favoured me with either of the explanations demanded of you, I can have nothing more to say to you upon my own account. Your mercy to me, or tenderness for yourself, has been very great. The public will judge of your motives. If your excess of modesty forbids you