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Often appears with: manumission · inheritance and the passing of the house · equity, mercy, and pardon · conversion and faith · consolation in grief
Usually: letter or document (1) · grief and loss (1) · detachment (1) · lament (1)
Pliny consoles Paternus for servants’ deaths by stressing his practice of manumission and allowing enslaved people a will-like right, then admits sorrow still gets the better of him.
other was rejected; while the third, as it was not powerful enough to conquer both the others, had only to choose to which of the two it would yield. Farewell. XC -- To PATERNUS THE sickness lately in my family, which has carried off several of my servants, some of them, too, in the prime of their years, has been a great affliction to me. I have two consolations, however, which, though by no means equivalent to suc…