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 CCCCXLV (F XIV, 22)

TO TERENTIA (AT ROME)

If you are well, I am glad. I am well. I am expecting my letter-carriers any time to-day. If they come, I shall perhaps learn what I shall have to do, and will at once let you know. Take good care of your health. Good-bye,

1 September.

CCCCXLVI (F XV, 15)

TO GAIUS CASSIUS (IN ASIA?)



Although both of us, from a hope of peace and a loathing for civil bloodshed, desired to hold aloof from an obstinate prosecution of war, nevertheless, since I think I was the first to adopt that policy, I am perhaps more bound to give you satisfaction on that point, than to expect it from you. Although, as I am often wont to recall in my own mind, my intimate talk with you and yours with me led us both to the conclusion that it was reasonable that, if not the cause as a whole, yet at least our judgment should be decided by the result of one battle. Nor does anyone ever sincerely criticise this opinion of ours, except those who think it better that the constitution should be utterly destroyed, rather than remain in a maimed and weakened state. I, on the contrary, saw of course no personal hope from its destruction, much from its surviving fragments. But a state of things has followed which makes it more surprising that