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 DCXVII (A XIII, 8)

TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)



I have absolutely nothing to say to you. For you have only just left me, and shortly after your departure have sent me back my note-book. Please see that the accompanying packet is delivered to Vestorius, and instruct some one to inquire whether there is any land of Quintus Staterius's, on his Pompeian or Nolan properties, for sale. Please send me Brutus's epitome of the annals of Cælius; and ask Philoxenus for Panætius "On Foresight." Be sure I see you and your party on the thirteenth.

DCXVIII (A XIII, 7)

TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)



Sestius came to see me yesterday and so did Theopompus. He told me that a letter had arrived from Cæsar to the effect that he was resolved to remain at Rome, and that he gave as his reason the one mentioned in my letter —for fear of his laws being disregarded if he were away, just as his sumptuary law had been. That is reasonable, and is what I had suspected. But one must give in to your friends, unless you think I might urge this same conclusion. He also told me that Lentulus had certainly divorced Metella. But you know all that better than I. Write back