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 CCCCXLIII (, 21)

TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)

On the 25th of August I received a letter from you dated the 19th, and I experienced on reading his epistle a very painful renewal of the sorrow which had been long ago caused me by Quintus's misconduct, but which I had by this time shaken off. Though it was impossible for you not to send me that letter, yet I should have preferred that it had not been sent.

In regard to what you say about the will, please consider what should be done and how. In regard to the money, she has herself written in the sense of my previous letter to you, and, if it is necessary, I will draw on the sum you mention.

Cæsar does not seem likely to be at Athens by the 1st of September. Many things are said to detain him in Asia, above all Pharnaces. The 12th legion, which Sulla visited first, is said to have driven him off with a shower of stones. It is thought that none of the legions will stir. Cæsar, people think, will go straight to Sicily from Patræ. But if that is so, he must necessarily come here. Yet I should

the 12th, has been lost.]
 * [Footnote: reasonably been suggested that a letter, dated as that to Terentia on