Dyd. Which volume of Cicero do you want, for there are four?
Plin. The second.
Epict. It is not yet back from the book-gluer, who had it, I believe, five days ago to glue.
Dyd. How do you like that pen?
Plin. On that point I am not very particular; whatever comes into my hand I use it as if it were good.
Dyd. You have learned that from Cicero.
Plin. You just be quiet. Open me the Cicero. Look me up three or four pages of the Tusculan Questions. Seek the passages on gentleness and joy.
Epict. Whose verses are these?
Plin. They are his own translations of Sophocles. This he does with keen pleasure and therefore often.
Epict. He was, I think, sufficiently apt in writing verses.