CCCCXLV (F XIV, 22)
TO TERENTIA (AT ROME)
Brundisium, 1 September
If you are well, I am glad. I am well. I am expecting
my letter-carriers any time to-day. If they come, I shall
perhaps learn what I shall have to do, and will at once let
you know. Take good care of your health. Good-bye,
1 September.
CCCCXLVI (F XV, 15)
TO GAIUS CASSIUS (IN ASIA?)
Brundisium (August or early September)
Although both of us, from a hope of peace and a loathing
for civil bloodshed, desired to hold aloof from an obstinate
prosecution of war, nevertheless, since I think I was the
first to adopt that policy, I am perhaps more bound to give
you satisfaction on that point, than to expect it from you.
Although, as I am often wont to recall in my own mind,
my intimate talk with you and yours with me led us both
to the conclusion that it was reasonable that, if not the cause
as a whole, yet at least our judgment should be decided by
the result of one battle. Nor does anyone ever sincerely
criticise this opinion of ours, except those who think it
better that the constitution should be utterly destroyed,
rather than remain in a maimed and weakened state. I, on
the contrary, saw of course no personal hope from its
destruction, much from its surviving fragments. But a state
of things has followed which makes it more surprising that
