DCCCLXIII (BRUT. I, 6)
M. IUNIUS BRUTUS TO CICERO (AT
ROME)
IMA CANDAVIA,
1 19 MAY Don't expect me
to thank you. From the closeness of our intimacy,
which has now reached the highest possible point
of friendship, that ought long ago to have become
superfluous. Your son is not in my quarters; we
shall meet in Macedonia. His orders were to lead
the cavalry from Ambracia by way of Thessaly, and
I have written to him to meet me at Heraclea. When
I see him; as you consent, I will settle with him
about his return for his candidature, or rather
his recom mendation to the office.
2 I commend to your protection
with the utmost warmth Pansa's physician Glyco,
who is married to the sister of my freedman
Achilles. I am told that he is suspected by
Torquatus in regard to Pansa's death, and is in
custody as a murderer. Nothing could be more
incredible: for who lost more than he did by
Pansa's death? Besides he is a well-conducted
moral man, whom even personal advantage would seem
unlikely to tempt to crime. I beg you, and that
with great earnestness—for my Achilles
is as anxious about it as he is bound to
be—to rescue him from prison and be his
preserver. This I regard as affecting my duty as a
private man as nearly as anything else could do.
3
While I was actually
writing this letter to you a despatch was
delivered to me from Satrius, a legate of Gaius
Trebonius, saying that Dolabella had been defeated
and put to flight by Tillius 4 and Deiotarus. I am sending you a Greek
letter of a certain Cicereius to Satrius. Our
friend Flavius 5 in a dispute that he has with the people
of Dyrrachium about an inheritance has named you
as arbitrator: I beg you, Cicero, as does Flavius
also, to settle this business. There is no doubt
that the town owed money to the man who made
Flavius his heir, nor do the Dyrrachini deny it,
but they allege that they received from Caesar a
remission of their debt. Don't allow your friends
6 to do a wrong to a friend of mine.
19 May, in camp at Ima
Candavia.
IMA CANDAVIA,
