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he comes to town. So by this time they have been presented and the matter is out of your hands. Ah, well, if you could but know what a risk you are running! Or perhaps my letter has caused you to put it off, though you had not read it when you wrote your last. I am therefore in a flutter to know how the matter stands.

About Brutus's affection and the walk you had together, though you have nothing new to tell me, only the old story, yet the oftener I hear it the more I like it. It gives me the greater gratification that you find pleasure in it, and I feel all the surer of it that it is you who report it.

DCXLI (A XIII, 43)

TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)

Yes, I shall avail myself of the postponement of the day;[2] and it was exceedingly kind of you to inform me, especially as I received the letter at a time when I wasn't expecting one, and you wrote it from your seat at the games.[3] I have in any case some matters of business to attend to at Rome, but I will settle them two days later.[Footnote: 2 Of the auction, which had been fixed for the 15th.]

[Footnote: 3 The games of Apollo, which were on the 12th and following days of July.]