Pliny. Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6
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Epistle XVIII. To Macer.


by the Same. [Mr. Henley.]
Note: On this Seat at Tarentum.

   I Am well, because you are so. You have the Conversation of your Lady and your Son with you. You enjoy the Sea and grassy Fountains, the Country, the most delightful Seat in it. For such it must be, since it was the Retreat of Nerva, who was happier there, than when he was most Fortunate after. I follow my Sports and my Studies in my Tuscan Villa; I pursue them now by Turns; and now together; and yet, I cannot, to this very Hour, affirm, whether to take my Game or to Write, be the more difficult Task of the Two.

   Farewell.





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