CDLXV (A XII, 5, § 4)
TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)
TUSCULUM, 12 JUNE
I have sent Tiro to meet Dolabella. He will be
returning to me on the 13th. I shall expect you
the next day. I see that you regard my dear
Tullia's interests as of the first importance. I
beg you earnestly to let it be so. So then she is
still completely uncommitted; for so you say in
your letter. Though I had to avoid the Kalends,
1 and shun
the "originals" 2 of the Nicasiones, and had
to balance my accounts, yet there was nothing to
make up for my absence from you. When I was at
Rome and thought every moment that I was going to
catch a sight of you, even so every day the hours of waiting seemed long. You know I am
by no means a flatterer, and so I considerably
understate my feelings.
TUSCULUM, 12 JUNE