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 have, for the sake of settling the affairs of the municipium, consented that my son, and nephew, and M. Cæsius—a very intimate friend of mine—should be ædiles; for that and no other is the magistrate customarily elected in our municipium. You will have contributed to the reputation of these last, if the public business of the municipium should, thanks to your kindness and attention, turn out to have been well managed. I beg you warmly and repeatedly to do this.

CCCCLI (, 12)

TO M. IUNIUS BRUTUS (IN CISALPINE GAUL)

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In another letter I have commended our commissioners from Arpinum in a body as earnestly as I could. In this with still greater earnestness I commend Q. Fufidius to you separately—with whom I have ties of all kinds—not to detract at all from the former commendation, but to put in this one in addition. He has two special claims on me: he is a stepson of M. Cæsius, who is a very intimate friend and close connexion of mine; and he served under me in Cilicia as a military tribune, in which office he conducted himself in such a way as to make me feel that I had received a kindness from him, rather than conferred one. He is besides—which is of very great weight with you—by no means without taste for our favourite studies. Wherefore I would have you admit him to your society without the least reserve, and take pains to make his labour on this commission—which he has undertaken to his own inconvenience and at my instigation—as complete a success as possible. For he wishes, as the best men naturally do, to earn the utmost possible credit both