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The Latin reading blog: Pliny the Younger: letter 1.6: a scholar as hunter.
C. PLINIUS CORNELIO TACITO SUO S.
1 Ridebis, et licet rideas. Ego, ille quem nosti, apros tres et quidem pulcherrimos cepi. 'Ipse?' inquis. Ipse; non tamen ut omnino ab inertia mea et quiete discederem. Ad retia sedebam; erat in proximo non venabulum aut lancea, sed stilus et pugillares; meditabar aliquid enotabamque, ut si manus vacuas, plenas tamen ceras reportarem. 2 Non est quod contemnas hoc studendi genus; mirum est ut animus agitatione motuque corporis excitetur; iam undique silvae et solitudo ipsumque illud silentium quod venationi datur, magna cogitationis incitamenta sunt. 3 Proinde cum venabere, licebit auctore me ut panarium et lagunculam sic etiam pugillares feras: experieris non Dianam magis montibus quam Minervam inerrare. Vale.
non tamen ut omnino: without even at all
pugillares -ium (m. pl.): (small) writing-tablets
ut si manus vacuas, plenas tamen ceras reportarem.: best to translate reportarem twice: so that, if would return empty-handed, I would still bring back  etc.
cera: wax (writing tablets had a thin layer of wax to write on, so cera was used as a pars pro toto for pugillares)
Non est quod: there is no reason that
undique: from all sides
venatio –onis (f.): hunting
venor: to hunt (venabere = venaberis)
auctore me: on my example, on my authority etc.
ut…sic etiam: not alone…but even
lagunculam: small/little flask/bottle; (for wine)
Diana: as the goddess of hunting she lives in the wild
Translation (in this edition it is letter iv!):
Roman Art: The Small Hunt, detail. The Wild Boar Hunt. Mosaic, 315-350 AD. Piazza Armerina, Roman Villa of Casale, Italy.       You see here a boar caught in a rete.
(picture from: http://www.superstock.com/stock-photos-images/1899-42641 )
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