Latin Texts & Translations

CCLVIII (F XIII, 2)

TO GAIUS MEMMIUS (IN MITYLENE) (LAODICEA, MAY?)

I ^[Note] am very intimate with C. Avianius Evander, who is at present lodging in your treasure-chamber, ^[Note] as well as with his patron M. Aemilius. I ask you, therefore, with more than common earnestness, to give him any accommodation you can, without causing yourself inconvenience, as to his place of residence. For owing to his having many orders on hand for a number of people, it would hurry him very much if he were forced to quit your house on the 1st of July. My modesty will not allow me to use more words in preferring my request: yet I feel sure that, if it is not inconvenient, or not very much so, you will feel as I should have felt if you had asked a favour of me. I, at any rate, shall be extremely obliged to you.