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and laws. These are my views. You will very much oblige me if you will write and tell me what you mean to do and what your opinion is.

CCCCLX (, 7)

TO M. TERENTIUS VARRO (AT TUSCULUM)

I was dining with Seius when a letter was delivered to each of us from you. Yes, I really think it is high time. For as to the personal motive in what I said before, I will own the cunning of my heart—I wanted you to be somewhere near in case of anything good turning up: "two heads," you know. At present, seeing that it is all over and done, we should not hesitate to go over, horse, foot, and artillery! For when I heard about L. Cæsar the younger, I said to myself:

"What will he do for me, his sire?"

Accordingly, I do not cease dining out with the members of the party now in power. What else should I do? One must go with the times. But a truce to jesting, especially as we have nothing to laugh at:

"With fearsome tumult shakes wild Afric's shore."

Accordingly, there is nothing "undesirable" which I do not, "when two go together one hits one thing first and the other another." "Two heads are better than one." Cicero expects the learned Varro, as he did Atticus, to fill up the quotation.], a technical word of the Stoics. Nothing is good]*