DCVII (A XIII, 30)
TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)
TUSCULUM, 28 MAY
I am sending you back Q. Cicero's letter.
1 How hard-hearted of you not to
be agitated by his dangers! He has something to
say against me also. I am sending you half the
letter. For the other half, with the account of
his achievements, I think you have in duplicate. I
have sent a letter-carrier to Cumae today. I have
given him your letter to Vestorius, which you had
given Pharnaces. I had just sent Demeas to you
when Eros arrived, but there was nothing new in
the letter he brought except that the auction was
to last two days. So you will come after it is
over, as you say; and I hope with the Faberius
affair settled. But Eros says that he won't settle
today: he thinks he will tomorrow morning. You
must be very polite to him. But such flatteries
are almost criminal. I shall see you, I hope, the
day after tomorrow. If you can do so from any
source, find out who Mummius's ten legates were.
Polybius doesn't give their names. I remember the
consular Albinus and Spurius
Mummius: I think Hortensius told me Tuditanus; but
in Libo's annals Tuditanus was praetor fourteen
years after Mummius's Consulship. That certainly
doesn't square with it. I have in my mind a
Political Conference, to be held at Olympia or
where you will, after the manner of your friend
Dicaearchus. 2
TUSCULUM, 28 MAY