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 DVIII (F XIII, 71)

TO P. SERVILIUS VATIA ISAURICUS (IN ASIA)

It is inevitable that I should recommend many persons to you, for everyone knows our intimacy and your kindly feeling towards me. Nevertheless, though I am bound to wish well to all whom I recommend, yet I have not the same reason to do so in the case of all. Titus Agusius was by my side during the most miserable time of my life, and was the companion of all my journeys, voyages, labours, and dangers: nor would he now have left my side, had I not granted him permission. Therefore I recommend him to you as one of my own household and of those most closely united to me. You will very much oblige me if you make him feel by your treatment of him that this recommendation has been of great service and assistance to him.

DIX (F XIII, 72)

TO P. SERVILIUS VATIA ISAURICUS (IN ASIA)

In an interview with you in your suburban villa I commended to you the property, investments, and estates in Asia of my friend Cærellia as earnestly as I could, and you promised me with the greatest liberality to do everything possible in a manner consonant with your unbroken and