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 eminent services to me. I hope you remember the fact: I know that it is your habit to do so. Nevertheless, Cærellia's agents have written to me to say that, owing to the wide extent of your province and the multiplicity of your engagements, you need to be frequently reminded. I ask you, therefore, to remember that you promised me in the amplest terms that you would do everything your honour would allow. In my opinion—but it is a matter for yourself to consider and decide—you have now an excellent opportunity of obliging Cærellia in accordance with the decree of the senate passed in regard to the heirs of C. Vennonius. That decree you will interpret in the light of your own wisdom. For I know that the authority of that order has always been great in your eyes. For the rest, please believe that in whatever particulars you may have done kindnesses to Cærellia, you will be very greatly obliging me.

DX (F XII, 17)

TO SERVIUS SULPICIUS RUFUS (IN ACHAIA)

Manius Curius, who has a bank at Patræ, has given me many weighty reasons for being attached to him. My friendship with him is of very old standing, dating from his first entrance into public life: and at Patræ on many previous occasions, and particularly during the late unhappy war, his house was put entirely at my disposal, and if there had been any occasion, I should have used it as my own. But my strongest tie to him is of what I may call a more sacred obligation—it is that he is a very close friend of my friend Atticus, and distinguishes him above everybody by his attentions and affection. If you are by any chance already acquainted with him, I think that I am too late in doing what I am now doing. For he is so cultivated and polite a