CDLI (F XIII, 12)
TO M. IUNIUS BRUTUS (IN CISALPINE
GAUL)
ROME (?)
IN another letter I have commended our
commissioners from Arpinum in a body as earnestly
as I could. In this with still greater earnestness
I commend Q. Fufidius to you separately-with whom
I have ties of all kinds-not to detract at all
from the former commendation, but to put in this
one in addition. He has two special claims on me:
he is a stepson of M. Caesius, who is a very
intimate friend and close connexion of mine; and
he served under me in Cilicia as a military
tribune, in which office he conducted himself in
such a way as to make me feel that I had received
a kindness from him, rather than conferred one. He
is besides—which is of very great weight
with you—by no means without taste for
our favourite studies. Wherefore I would have you
admit him to your society without the least
reserve, and take pains to make his labour on this
commission—which he has undertaken to
his own inconvenience and at my
instigation—as complete a success as
possible. For he wishes, as the best men naturally
do, to earn the utmost possible credit both from me, who urged him to undertake it,
and from the municipium. This he will succeed in
doing, if by this recommendation of mine he
secures your good services.
ROME (?)
