Citations:dash off


 * 2019, Charles McGrath, They Were the Renaissance Men of Roman Antiquity, (10 December 2019);
 * Pliny claimed to have taken no care in collecting and arranging these letters, but he almost certainly polished and tweaked them after the fact to make himself look good for posterity. As a result, they’re sometimes a little stuffy, with none of the spontaneity and depth of feeling in Cicero’s letters, which were often dashed off right in the thick of things.