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if there is anything in my handwriting which the copyists can't make out, please instruct them. There is at least one inserted passage somewhat difficult to decipher, which I often find it hard to make out myself—about Cato when he was four years old. Look after the dinner table, as you have been doing. Tertia will come so long as Publius is not there. Your friend Demetrius was never quite a Demetrius of Phalerum, but now he has become a regular Billienus. Accordingly, I appoint you my representative: you will look after him. Although, after all: about those men—you know the rest. However, if you do have any conversation with him, write and tell me, that I may have something to put into a letter, and may have as long a one as possible from you to read. Take care of your health, my dear Tiro: you can't oblige me more than by doing that.