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Epistulae ad Familiares, I. vii.

extent and intensity of my affection, that I might have proved of some assistance to you with my advice.

3 I shall write to you more fully in another letter; for in a few days' time I am going to send some private carriers of my own, so that, having now discharged a public duty with distinct success and to my own satisfaction, I may send the Senate in a single dispatch a detailed account of the achievements of the whole summer.[1]

As to your election to the priesthood,[2] you will be informed in the letter I have entrusted to your freedman, Thraso, what attention I have given it, and how difficult the business, and your particular case, has been.

4 I adjure you, my dear Curio, in the name of your extraordinary friendship for me, and of mine, incomparable as it is, for you, not to allow any extension of time to be made in this irksome provincial government of mine.

I pleaded with you in person, when I little thought that you would be tribune of the plebs for this year, and I frequently repeated the petition by letter, but then it was addressed as it were to a very distinguished partisan, though a most popular young man, whereas now it is addressed to a tribune of the plebs, and that tribune Curio; and my petition is, not that some fresh decree should be passed, which is often a matter of considerable difficulty, but that no fresh decree at all should be passed, and that you should maintain the existing decrees of the Senate and the laws, and that the same terms should remain in force as when I left Rome. This I earnestly beg of you again and again.

  1. ↑ His campaign on Mount Amanus and occupation of Pindenissus.
  2. ↑ The College of Pontiffs, which co-opted its members, were probably disinclined to consider the candidature of a man of Curio's reputation.
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