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Epistulae ad Familiares, II. xiii.-xiv.

to private persons of all ranks from highest to lowest, what I propose to do is this—to set out for Cilicia on May 15, and as soon as ever I have reached our summer quarters, and made my military dispositions, to quit the province in accordance with the decree of the Senate. I am anxious to see you as an aedile, and it is wonderful how I long for Rome, and all my friends, and for no one more than yourself.

XIV

M. T. Cicero, imperator, to the same

Laodicea, February, 50 B.C.

I am on terms of the greatest intimacy with Marcus Fadius,[1] a most excellent man and a very distinguished scholar; I have a wonderful liking for him, not only for his preeminence in genius and learning, but also for his singularly unassuming demeanour. I should be glad if you would undertake his business as though it were my own. Oh, I know you, you famous advocates! If a man would avail himself of your services, his proper course is to commit a murder. But in this man's case I take no excuse. You will drop everything else, if you will be my friend, when Fadius desires the benefit of your services. I am eagerly awaiting news of affairs at Rome, indeed I am pining for it; and most particularly do I want to know how you are. The winter has been so severe that it is now ever so long since we had any news at all.

  1. ↑ Marcus Fadius Gallus, who wrote a panegyric on Cato of Utica.
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