DCLXXXV (F XIII, 36)
TO MANIUS ACILIUS GLABRIO (IN
SICILY)
ROME
WITH Demetrius Megas I have ancient ties of
hospitality, and a friendship such as I had with
no other Sicilian. Dolabella at my request
procured him citizenship from
Caesar, and I was present when it was bestowed.
Accordingly his name is now P. Cornelius. And
when, on account of certain infamous persons who
used to sell grants from him, Caesar ordered the
tablet containing the names of those who had
received citizenship to be taken down, he told the
same Dolabella in my hearing that he had nothing
to fear as to Megas, and that his grant to him
held good. I wished you to know this in order that
you might reckon him as a Roman citizen; and in
all other respects I commend him to you with an
earnestness beyond which I have not gone with
respect to anyone. You will do me the very
greatest favour if you shew him by your treatment
of him that my recommendation has been greatly to
his honour.
ROME
