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CCLVII (F II, 18)
TO Q. MINUCIUS THERMUS (PROPRAETOR OF ASIA)
I am exceedingly glad that such services as I have rendered to Rhodon, and any other kindnesses I have done you and yours, have pleased you, the most grateful of men; and let me assure you that I feel greater interest every day in promoting your position, though, indeed, you have yourself so enhanced it by the purity and lenity of your administration, that it seems scarcely to admit of any increase. But as I think over your plans, I am more and more convinced every day of the soundness of the advice which I originally gave our friend Ariston, when he came to see me, that you would be incurring dangerous enmity, if a young man [Note] of powerful connexions and high birth received a slight from you. And, by heaven! it certainly will be a slight: for you have
no one with you of higher official rank. The man himself, too, to say
nothing of his high birth, has claims superior to those of the excellent
and unimpeachable officers, your legates, in this special particular,
that he is a quaestor and your quaestor. That no individual can,
however provoked, do you any harm I quite see; yet I would not like
you to have three brothers, of the highest birth, energetic, and not
without eloquence, angry with you at once, especially on any good
ground: men too whom I see will be successively tribunes during the
next three years.
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