CCXXIX (F XIII, 53)
TO Q. MINUCIUS THERMUS (PROPRAETOR
ASIA)
CILICIA
I have long1 been very intimate with L.
Genucilius Curvus, who is a very excellent man and
of an exceedingly grateful disposition. I
recommend him to you without reserve, and
introduce him to you, in the first place, that you
may give him facilities generally in all his
affairs, so far as your honour and position will
allow—and, indeed, that will be in
everything, for he will never ask anything of you
inconsistent with his own character, or, indeed,
with yours. But in a special manner
also I commend to your protection his business
concerns in Hellespontus: first, to enable him to
maintain the privilege in regard to land-holding,
which the state of Parium gave him by decree, and
which he has always maintained without dispute;
and, in the second place, that you should, in case
of his being involved in a suit with a
Hellespontian, refer it to that diocese. 2 However, I do
not think that, having recommended him with the
utmost earnestness to you in general, I need go
into particular cases affecting him. The upshot is
this : whatever attention, kindness, or mark of
honour you bestow on Genucilius, I shall consider
that you have bestowed on me and my interests.
CILICIA
