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Epistulae ad Familiares, III. iv.

as to the points you wished him to discuss with me. I am eagerly awaiting him, so that I may learn as soon as possible what message he is bringing from you.

My affection and anxiety to serve you, you have already, I trust, discovered from much that has occurred; I shall, however, make it clearer than ever by such acts as will enable me to give the most ample proof that your reputation and prestige are most precious to me. Q. Fabius Vergilianus and C. Flaccus, son of Lucius, and, more strongly than any, M. Octavius, son of Gnaeus, have convinced me that you think very highly of me, a fact which I had myself previously inferred from many clear proofs, but most of all from that book on Augural Law which you sent me with its very affectionate dedication, and a most charming gift it was.

2 Speaking for myself, all the services due to you by virtue of our very close official relationship, will be consistently performed. For not only has my esteem for you increased daily from the time you began to show a special regard for me, but there has also been added my close intimacy with your relatives—for two of whom, of different ages, I have the highest esteem, Cn. Pompeius,[1] the father-in-law of your daughter, and M. Brutus,[2] your son-in-law—and the fact of our being members of the same College,[3] especially as you have expressed your approval of it in such highly complimentary terms, has, I think, contributed no slight bond towards the linking together of our aims and purposes. But if I meet Clodius, when I have heard what he has to say, I will write to you at greater length, and spare no effort myself to see you as soon as possible. You

  1. ↑ Cn. Pompeius Magnus had two sons, Gnaeus and Sextus; the former married a daughter of Appius Claudius, and the latter a daughter of Libo.
  2. ↑ Claudia, daughter of Appius Claudius, was the first wife of M. Brutus, who afterwards married Porcia, daughter of Cato Uticensis and widow of Bibulus.
  3. ↑ The College of Augurs.
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