DCLI (A XIII, 47 b)
TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)
ASTURA, 30 JULY
YESTERDAY evening I got a letter from Lepidus
dated Antium, for he was there in a house which I
sold him. He asks me earnestly to be in the senate
on the 1st, saying that I shall greatly gratify
both Caesar and himself by so doing. 1 I think,
for my part, that there is nothing in it: for
perhaps Oppius would have said something to you,
as Balbus is ill. However, I preferred to come for
nothing rather than be absent if I was wanted: I
should have regretted it afterwards. So today I
shall be at Antium; tomorrow, at my town house
before noon. Pray dine with me, if nothing
prevents you, on the 31st and bring Pilia. I hope
you have settled with Publilius. I mean to hurry
back to Tusculum on the 1st; for I prefer all
negotiations with them to go on in my absence. I
am sending you my brother Quintus's letter; it is
not indeed a very kind response to mine, but still
sufficient to satisfy you, as I imagine. That is
your affair.
ASTURA, 30 JULY
