Latin Texts & Translations

CCXLIV (F II, 14)

TO M. CAELIUS RUFUS (AT ROME) LAODICEA (FEBRUARY)

I am very intimate with M. Fadius, a most excellent man an& most accomplished scholar, and I am wonderfully

attached to him, as well for his great talents and consummate learning, as for the singular modesty of his behaviour. Pray take up his business as though it were my own. I know you distinguished advocates: one must commit a murder if one wishes the benefit of your services: but in the case of this man I will accept no excuse. You will throw up every other engagement, if you love me, when Fadius desires your services. I am eagerly looking out and longing for news from Rome, and before all I desire to know how you are: for, owing to the severity of the winter, it is now a long time since any news found its way to us.