B.C. 46, ÆT. 60 understand to be to your interests I will attend to with the greatest zeal and activity, and will preserve the memory of what you did for me at the saddest period of my life.
CCCCLXXXII (F IV, 15)
TO GNÆUS PLANCIUS[1] (EXILE IN CORCYRA)
Rome (September)
I have received your very short note, from which I was not
able to learn what I wanted to know, but did learn what I
was sure of already. For I did not gather with how much
courage you were bearing our common misfortunes: while
the strength of your affection for me I had no difficulty in
seeing. But the latter I had known before. If I had known
the former, I would have adapted my letter to it. However,
though I have already written all that I thought ought to be
written, I yet considered that at such a crisis as this I ought
briefly to warn you not to think that you are in any danger
special to yourself. We are all in great danger, but yet in
one that is common to us all. So you ought neither to
demand a position peculiar to yourself and distinct, nor to
refuse one in which we all share. Wherefore let us keep
the same mutual regard as we always had; which I may hope
in your case and guarantee in my own.
- ↑ See vol. i., p. 172.
