DXIII (F XIII, 20)
TO SERVIUS SULPICIUS RUFUS (IN ACHAIA)
Rome
I am intimate with the physician Asclapo of Patræ.[1] I
found his society very agreeable, as well as his medical
skill, which I have had experience of in the illnesses of my
household. He gave me every satisfaction both by his
knowledge of his profession and by his kindness. I therefore
commend him to you, and beg you to see that he
understands that I have written cordially about him, and
that my recommendation has been of great service to him.
It will be doing me a great favour.
DXIV (F XIII, 21)
TO SERVIUS SULPICIUS RUFUS (IN ACHAIA)
Rome
M. Æmilius Avianius has always from his earliest manhood
shewn me attention and affection. He is both a good and
cultivated man, and worthy of your favour in every kind of
employment. If I had thought that he was at Sicyon, and
had I not been told that he was still staying where I left
him at Cibyra, there had been no necessity for my writing
at any greater length to you about him. For he would of
himself have secured your affection by his own character
and culture without anyone's recommendation, in as great
a degree as he enjoys mine and that of all his other friends.
But as I suppose him to be away, I commend with more
- ↑ Another of the doctors who attended Tiro (vol. ii., p. 212).
