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be more anxious about and vexed at. These latter distress me quite as much as was desired by those who forced me to act against my better judgment. Take care of your health.

4 January.

CCCCXXIII (, 10)

TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)

My distresses, already past calculation, have received an addition by the news brought to me of the elder and younger Quintus. My connexion Publius Terentius was employed as deputy master of his company in Asia in collecting the harbour dues and the pasture rents. He saw the younger Quintus at Ephesus on the 8th of December, and entertained him warmly for the sake of our friendship, and on asking some questions about me, he tells me that Quintus replied that he was bitterly opposed to me, and shewed him a roll containing a speech which he intended to deliver against me before Cæsar. Terentius says that he dissuaded him from such a senseless proceeding at great length; and that afterwards at Patræ the elder Quintus talked a great deal to him in a similar strain of treachery. The latter's furious state