Seneca to Paul, greeting. Hail, my dearest Paul. If you, so great a man, so beloved in all ways, be, I say not joined, but intimately associated with me and my name, it will indeed be well with your Seneca. Since, then, you are the summit and topmost peak of all people, would you not have me glad that I am so near you as to be counted a second self of yours?
2Do not, then, think that you are unworthy to be named first on the heading of letters, lest you make me think you are testing me rather than playing with me, especially as you know yourself to be a Roman citizen. For the rank that is mine, I would it were yours, and yours I would were mine. Farewell, dearest Paul. Given on the tenth of the kalends of April; Apronianus and Capito consuls.