M. Tullius Cicero, Letters to his Friends, CXLIV (F VII, 9)

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CXLIV (F VII, 9)

TO C. TREBATIUS TESTA (IN GAUL)
ROME (SEPTEMBER)

It is a long time since I heard how you were getting on: for you don't write, nor have I written to you for the last two months. As you were not with my brother Quintus I did not know where to send a letter, or to whom to give it. I am anxious to know how you are and where you mean to winter. For my part, my opinion is that you should do so with Caesar; but I have not ventured to write to him owing to his mourning. ¹ I would rather you put off your return to us, so long as you come with fuller pockets. There is nothing to make you hurry home, especially since "Battara" ² is dead. But you are quite capable of thinking for yourself. I desire to know what you have settled. There is a certain Cn. Octavius or Cn. Cornelius, a friend of yours, “ Of highest race begot, a son of Earth.
” He has frequently asked me to dinner, because he knows that you are an intimate friend of mine. At present he has not succeeded in getting me: however, I am much obliged to him.

1 For the death (in September) of his daughter Iulia, wife of Pompey.

2 A nickname, it is said, of Vacerra (perhaps because he stuttered), who had been a teacher of Trebatius.

Cicero. The Letters of Cicero; the whole extant correspondence in chronological order, in four volumes. Evelyn S. Shuckburgh. London. George Bell and Sons. 1908-1909.

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