DVII (F XIII, 70)
TO P. SERVILIUS VATIA ISAURICUS (IN
ASIA)
ROME
YOUR affection for me is so notorious that
many seek to be recommended to you by my means.
Now I grant that favour at times indiscriminately,
but generally only to close friends, as in the
present instance: for I am very intimate and very
closely connected with T. Ampius Balbus. His
freedman T. Ampius Menander, a man of strict
morals, good conduct, and highly thought of both
by his patron and myself, I commend to you with no
common warmth. You will do me a very great favour,
if you will oblige him in any matters consistent
with your own convenience. I earnestly ask you
again and again to do so.
ROME
