DVIII (F XIII, 71)
TO P. SERVILIUS VATIA ISAURICUS (IN ASIA)
Rome
It is inevitable that I should recommend many persons to
you, for everyone knows our intimacy and your kindly
feeling towards me. Nevertheless, though I am bound to
wish well to all whom I recommend, yet I have not the
same reason to do so in the case of all. Titus Agusius was
by my side during the most miserable time of my life, and
was the companion of all my journeys, voyages, labours,
and dangers: nor would he now have left my side, had I
not granted him permission. Therefore I recommend him
to you as one of my own household and of those most closely
united to me. You will very much oblige me if you make
him feel by your treatment of him that this recommendation
has been of great service and assistance to him.
DIX (F XIII, 72)
TO P. SERVILIUS VATIA ISAURICUS (IN ASIA)
Rome
In an interview with you in your suburban villa I commended
to you the property, investments, and estates in
Asia of my friend Cærellia[1] as earnestly as I could, and you
promised me with the greatest liberality to do everything
possible in a manner consonant with your unbroken and
- ↑ Cicero seems to have owed money to this rich lady (Att. xii. 51). She posed as a philosopher and authoress, but seems to have not been very scrupulous as to where she got materials for her books (Att. xiii. 21, 22).
