DCXVII (A XIII, 8)
TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)
Tusculum (8 June)
I have absolutely nothing to say to you. For you have
only just left me, and shortly after your departure have sent
me back my note-book. Please see that the accompanying
packet is delivered to Vestorius, and instruct some one to
inquire whether there is any land of Quintus Staterius's, on
his Pompeian or Nolan properties, for sale. Please send
me Brutus's epitome of the annals of Cælius; and ask
Philoxenus for Panætius "On Foresight." Be sure I see you
and your party on the thirteenth.
DCXVIII (A XIII, 7)
TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)
Tusculum (9 June)
Sestius came to see me yesterday and so did Theopompus.
He told me that a letter had arrived from Cæsar to the
effect that he was resolved to remain at Rome,[1] and that he
gave as his reason the one mentioned in my letter[2]—for
fear of his laws being disregarded if he were away, just as
his sumptuary law had been. That is reasonable, and is
what I had suspected. But one must give in to your
friends, unless you think I might urge this same conclusion.
He also told me that Lentulus had certainly divorced
Metella. But you know all that better than I. Write back
