Latin Texts & Translations

DCV (A XIII, 2, §§ 1, 2)

TO ATTICUS (AT ROME) TUSCULUM (27 MAY)

Please order the letters to be delivered to Oppius and Balbus; and, by the way, see Piso whenever you can about the gold. If Faberius comes to town, you will please see that I am credited with the right amount, if there is to be any crediting at all. ^[Note] You will learn what it is from Eros. Ariarathes son of Ariobarzanes ^[Note] has come to Rome. He wants, I suppose, to buy some kingdom from Caesar. For, as at present situated, he hasn't a foot of ground to call his own. After all, our friend Sextus—as a sort of official entertainer-has monopolized him, for which I am not sorry. However, as I am very intimate with his brothers, owing to the great services I did them, I am writing to invite him to stay in my house. As I was sending Alexander for that purpose, I have given him this letter to take.