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 fallen through. Let us console ourselves therefore with the hackneyed reflexion, "perhaps it is all for the best." But of this when we meet. Go on as you have begun—loving me and feeling certain that I love you.

VIII (F XIII, 48)

TO SEXTILIUS RUFUS (QUÆSTOR IN CILICIA )

I commend all the Cyprians to you, but more especially the Paphians. Anything you can do to oblige the latter will be regarded with great gratitude by me. I have the more pleasure in commending them to you because I think it will conduce to your reputation (of which I am ever a supporter), as you are the first to enter the island as a quæstor, if you establish precedents for others to follow. You will, I hope, secure this with greater ease if you decide to follow the law of your connexion Publius Lentulus, and the regulations made by myself. This course I feel sure will redound to your honour.

IX (F XII, 20)

TO QUINTUS CORNIFICIUS (IN CAMPANIA)

Your letter gave me great pleasure, except for the contempt it expressed for my little lodge at Sinuessa. This insult my