Tibi certe, Polli dulcissime et hac cui tam fideliter inhaeres quiete dignissime, non habeo diu probandam libellorum istorum temeritatem, cum scias multos ex illis in sinu tuo subito natos et hanc audaciam stili nostri frequenter expaveris, quotiens in illius facundiae tuae penetrale seductus altius litteras intro et in omnis a te studiorum sinus ducor.
To you at least, dearest Pollius, most deserving of the tranquility to which you so faithfully cling, I do not have to justify at length the temerity of these little pieces. For you know that many of them came suddenly to birth on your lap and you have often been alarmed by this audacity of my pen, when you take me aside into the sanctuary of your eloquence and I enter more deeply into letters, led by you into every cranny of study.
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