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Epistulae ad Familiares, III. vi.-vii.

unless you write and tell me, it is impossible for me to have even the slightest idea when or where I shall see you.

6 For my part, I shall take care to make our friends and foes alike understand that I am most friendly disposed towards you. Of your feelings towards me you appear to have given our foes no slight grounds for thinking otherwise; it will be a great pleasure to me if you succeed in correcting that impression. And—to enable you to calculate at what spot you may meet me, and still observe the Cornelian law"[1]—I arrived in the province on July 31; I am making my way into Cilicia through Cappadocia; I move my camp from Iconium on August 29. And now with these dates and this plan of my route to guide you, if you still think it incumbent upon you to meet me, it is for you to decide at what place you can most conveniently do so, and on what day.

VII

To the same

Laodicea, February 50 B.C.

1 I will write to you more fully when I manage to get more leisure. I have written these words in a hurry, when Brutus's serving-men met me at Laodicea and told me that they were hastening to Rome, and so I gave them no letters except for you and for Brutus.

2 A deputation from Appia[2] have delivered to me a roll from you full of the most unfair complaints,

  1. ↑ See note a on page 184.
  2. ↑ A town in Phrygia.
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