By Lucius Annaeus Seneca
You have sent a letter to me through the hand of a "friend" of yours, as you call him.
And in your very next sentence you warn me not to discuss with him all the matters that concern you, saying that even you yourself are not accustomed to do this; in other words, you have in the same letter affirmed and denied that he is your friend.
Now if you used this word of ours in the popular sense, and called him "friend" in the same way in which we speak of all candidates fo...
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