bijou villa will much resent unless you make full and complete amends at Cumæ and Pompeii.[1] Pray do so, and go on loving me and bombarding me with letters of some sort. For I am better at reply than at challenging. But if you continue idle about it, as you are at present, I shall have at you; and your want of spirit shall not produce inactivity in me. More when I have leisure: I scribble these lines while in the senate.
X (F XIII, 32)
TO Q. MARCIUS REX (IN SICILY?)
Rome (after B.C. 47)
Aulus Licinius Aristoteles of Melita has been my guest-friend
for many years past, and is besides united to me
by a very frequent and friendly intercourse. This being the
case I feel sure that he is sufficiently recommended to you,
For many people have told me that my recommendation
has great weight with you. I secured this man's liberation
from Cæsar. For he had been constantly with us, and stuck
even longer to that side than I did myself. This I think
will make you think all the better of him. See therefore,
my dear Rex, that he understands my letter to have been of
very great service to him.
- ↑ By staying with me in my villas there.
