The Letters of Pliny the Consul, Vol. 2: With Occasional Remarks (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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R E you determined then to pafs your whole time between Lucania and b Campania?

Your anfwer, I fuppofe, will be, that the former is your native country, and the latter that of your wife. This, I admit, may juflify a long ab fence, but I cannot allow it as a reafon for a per pernal one. But are you refolved in good earnei'c never to return to Rome; that theatre of honours; preferment, and amicable conneftions of every fort? Are you obfiinately determined to live your own mafier to fleep as long as you pleale, land to rife when you think proper? Will you never change your country garb for the drers of the town, but fpend your whole days unembarrafi'ed by our crowd ed fireets? It is time, however, you fhould re-vifit this our fcene of hurry, were it only that your rural pleafures may not grow languid by uninterrupted pofl'ellion: appear at the levees of the great, that you may enjoy the fame honour yourfelf with the more Iatisfaéiion 3. And mix in our crowds, that you may have a keener relifh for the charms of folitude. But am I not imprudently retarding the friend I would recall? It is thefe very circumfiances, per haps, Comprehending the Bafilicata, a province in the kingdom cf Naples.

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