ANNAEUS SENECA to PAUL Greeting.
ALL happiness to you, my dearest
Paul.
2 You have written many volumes in
an allegorical and mystical style,
and therefore such mighty matters
and business being committed to you,
require not to be set off with any
rhetorical flourishes of speech,
but only with some proper elegance.
3 I remember you often said,
that many by affecting such a style
do injury to their subjects, and
lose the force of the matters they
treat of.
4 But in this I desire you to
regard me, namely, to have respect
to true Latin, and to choose just
words, that so you may the better
manage the noble trust which is
reposed in you.
5 Farewell. Dated the fifth of
the nones of July, Leo and Savinus
Consuls.