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 APPENDIX A

[The following letters of recommendation cannot be dated, and are put here as almost completing that class of letter, and as being no doubt earlier at least than 44, or at any rate than the March of that year. The first has been attributed by some to 63. If that is so, it is the only letter of the year of the consulship: but there is really no means of thus dating it, or indeed of dating it at all.]

I (F XIII, 76)

TO THE QUATTUORVIRI AND DECURIONES OF [?FABRATERIA ]

I have so many reasons for being intimate with Quintus Hippius, that nothing can be more closely united than we are with each other. If that were not so, I should have maintained my usual resolution of not being troublesome to you in any matter. For in fact you are my best witnesses that, though I was convinced that there was nothing I might not obtain at your hands, I have never wished to be burdensome to you. I therefore beg you again and again with warmth that you would for my sake treat Gaius Valgius Hippianus as liberally as possible, and come to such a settlement, that he may be able to hold without obligation or charge the estate in the territory of Fregellæ which he