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 CCCCXLII (, 20)

TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)

On the 14th of August Gaius Trebonius arrived from Seleucia Pieria after twenty-seven days' journey, to tell me that at Antioch he saw the younger Quintus in Cæsar's company along with Hirtius: that they had got all they wanted in regard to the elder Quintus, and that without any trouble. I should have been more rejoiced at this if the concessions to myself conveyed any certainty of hope. But, in the first place, there are others, and among them Quintus, father and son, from whom I have reason to entertain other fears; and, in the next place, grants made by Cæsar himself as absolute master are again within his power to revoke. He has pardoned even Sallustius: he is said to refuse absolutely no one. This in itself suggests the suspicion that judicial investigation is held over for another time. M. Gallius, son of Quintus, has restored Sallustius his slaves. He came to transport the legions to Sicily: he said that Cæsar intends to go thither straight from Patræ. If he does that I shall come to some place nearer Rome, which I could wish I had done before. I am eagerly waiting for your answer to my last letter, in which I asked for your advice. Good-bye.

15 August.*