CCLII (F XIII, 54)
TO Q. MINUCIUS THERMUS (PROPRAETOR OF
ASIA)
LAODICEA (MARCH)
I am obliged to you for many instances of your
attention to my recommendations, but above all for
your very courteous treatment of M. Marcilius, son
of my friend and interpreter. He has arrived at
Laodicea, and in an interview with me has
expressed great gratitude to you, and to myself on
your account. I therefore ask you as a farther
favour, that, as you find your kindness well laid
out and meeting with gratitude from those persons,
you would be still more ready to oblige them, and
would endeavour, as far as your honour shall
permit, to prevent the young man's mother-in-law
from being prosecuted. I recommended Marcilius to
you before with some earnestness: I do so now with
still greater, because, in a long course of his
service as apparitor, I have found his father
Marcilius to be peculiarly and almost incredibly
trustworthy, disinterested, and scrupulous.
LAODICEA (MARCH)
