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Epistulae ad Familiares, III. iv.-v.

write that your reason for staying in the province was that you might meet me; well, to speak frankly, that is a real pleasure to me.

V

To the same

Tralles,[1] July 27, 51 B.C.

1 I came to Tralles on July 27. Awaiting me there with your letter and messages was L. Lucilius, a man than whom you could have sent nobody in the world either more friendly to myself, or, as I think, better suited to find out what I wanted to know, or more shrewd. Well, I read your letter with pleasure and listened to Lucilius with all due attention. For the present, for two reasons, firstly, because it is your own opinion too (for you write that you have come to the conclusion that what I wrote to you about our mutual good services, agreeable as it was to you, was nevertheless, since the record went so far back, quite unnecessary), and secondly, because as a matter of fact, when friendship has been established and loyalty tested, the recital of good services is superfluous; for those two reasons then I will omit that part of my address, but I will express my gratitude to you all the same, as I am bound to do. For I have noticed and ascertained from your correspondence that you have made it a principle in every respect to consult my interests, and by some means or other to make every arrangement and preparation which would enable me to carry out my "plan of campaign" with greater ease and freedom.

2 When I say that this civility of yours is most gratify-

  1. ↑ An important city in Lydia.
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