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Epistulae ad Familiares, IV. i.-ii.

EPISTULAE AD FAMILIARES, IV. i.-ii.

desire. If, however, it seems to a shrewd man like you to be expedient that we should have a talk, although it was my intention to remove still further from the City, which I can now hardly bear to hear named, I shall yet manage to get nearer to you. And I have instructed Trebatius, if there is any message you want him to send me, not to refuse to do so ; and I should like you to do so, or to send me anyone you please of those you can trust, so that it may not be necessary either for you to quit the City or for me to approach it. I am paying you as great a compliment as perhaps I am claiming for myself, in the assurance I feel that whatever course you and I together decide upon will be unanimously approved by the world.

II

TO THE SAME

Cumae, the end of April, 49 b.c.

I received your letter on April 28, when I was at my Cuman villa ; and on reading it I gathered that Philotimus did not act quite discreetly when, in spite of the instructions he had from you (as you write) on every point, he failed to come to me himself, and merely forwarded me your letter ; and I concluded that it was the shorter because you had imagined that he would deliver it in person. Any- how, after I had read your letter, your wife Postumia came to see me, and so did our dear Servius.* They were of opinion that it was for you to come to my Cuman house, and they even entreated me to write to you to that effect.

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