I (F XIII, 76)
TO THE QUATTUORVIRI AND DECURIONES OF [?FABRATERIA]
ROME
[Note]
I have so many reasons for being intimate with Quintus Hippius, that nothing can be more closely united than we are with each other. If that were not so, I should have maintained my usual resolution of not being troublesome to you in any matter. For in fact you are my best witnesses that, though I was convinced that there was nothing I might not obtain at your hands, I have never wished to be burdensome to you. I therefore beg you again and again with warmth that you would for my sake treat Gaius Valgius Hippianus
[Note]
as liberally as possible, and come to such a settlement, that he may be able to hold without obligation or charge the estate in the territory of Fregellae which he
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purchased from you. If I obtain that favour from you I shall consider that I have received a very signal kindness at your hands.
