writing to me, even if you have nothing to write about. For a letter from you always conveys something to me. I have accepted the inheritance of Galeo. I presume the form of acceptance was simple, as none has been sent me.[1]
CCCCXXVI (A XI, 13)
TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)
Brundisium (April)
I have not received anything by way of a letter as yet from
Muræna's freedman. Publius Siser delivered the one which
I am now answering. You mention a letter from the elder
Servius; also you say that certain persons announce the arrival
of Quintus in Syria—neither is true. You want to know how
the several persons who have arrived here are or have been
disposed towards me: I have not found any of them ill-disposed;
but I know, of course, that you are alive to the
importance of this fact to me. For myself, while the whole
position is intolerably painful, nothing is more so than the
fact that what I have always wished not to happen now appears
the only thing for my security.[2] They say that the elder
Publius Lentulus is at Rhodes, the younger at Alexandria,
and it is certain that Gaius Cassius has left Rhodes for
Alexandria.[3] Quintus writes to me to apologize in language*
- ↑ Cretio was the acceptance by an heir of an inheritance, with all its burdens. This had to be done within a certain number of days after the heir was notified of the fact. Sometimes there were special conditions attached, or the time allowed for acceptance was shortened by the clause being omitted, ordering the time for acceptance to be counted from the day the heir was notified. By cretio simplex Cicero seems to mean that everything was regular, so that there was no need to send him documents: though others explain cretio simplex to mean that there was only one heir.
- ↑ The success of the Cæsarians.
- ↑ P. Cornelius Lentulus (consul B.C. 57) was refused permission to land at Rhodes (Cæs. B. C. iii. 29). Gaius Cassius Longinus—the future assassin of Cæsar—was in command of Phœnician and Cilician ships for Pompey off Sicily, when he heard of the battle of Pharsalia. He made
