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 explanation—he was insolvent. I suppose he had asked some indulgence from Marcellus, who—as was his way—had answered him somewhat decidedly.

DCXXII (A XIII, 11)

TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)

"Not the same look." I thought I shouldn't mind. It was quite the reverse, when I found myself more widely separated from you. But I had to do it, both in order to settle the small rents of my properties, and to avoid burdening Brutus with the necessity of shewing me attention. For at a future time we shall be able to keep up our acquaintance at Tusculum on easier terms. But at the present juncture, when he wanted to see me every day and I could not go to him, he was losing all enjoyment of his Tusculan villa. Please therefore write and tell me whether Servilia has arrived, whether Brutus has taken any decided step, even if he has determined on doing so, and when he starts to. Cicero, as usual, expects Atticus to fill up any well-known quotation. It is from Euripides, Ion, 585:

[Greek: ou tauton eidos phainetai tôn pragmatôn prosôthen outôn, enguthen th' horômenôn.]

"Not the same look wear things when far removed As when beneath our eyes and close at hand." ]