Cæsar, and I was present when it was bestowed. Accordingly his name is now P. Cornelius. And when, on account of certain infamous persons who used to sell grants from him, Cæsar ordered the tablet containing the names of those who had received citizenship to be taken down, he told the same Dolabella in my hearing that he had nothing to fear as to Megas, and that his grant to him held good. I wished you to know this in order that you might reckon him as a Roman citizen; and in all other respects I commend him to you with an earnestness beyond which I have not gone with respect to anyone. You will do me the very greatest favour if you shew him by your treatment of him that my recommendation has been greatly to his honour.
DCLXXXVI (F XIII, 37)
TO MANIUS ACILIUS GLABRIO (IN SICILY)
Rome
I recommend Hippias, son of Philoxenus, of Calacta, to
you with more than common earnestness. His property, as
the matter has been reported to me, is held by the state for
a debt which is not properly his, contrary to the laws of the
Calactini. If that is so, even without any recommendation
from me, the merits of the case itself ought to secure him
your assistance. But however the matter stands, I beg you
as a compliment to me to expedite his case, and both in
this and in all other matters to oblige him as far as your
honour and position will allow. It will be doing me a very
great favour.
