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Epistulae ad Familiares, IV. x.-xi.

2 Well, if you possessed no single sense but that of vision, I should quite forgive you for objecting to the sight of certain folk; but since what is heard is not much less offensive than what is seen, and since, moreover, I suspected that your earliest possible arrival was greatly to the interest of your private estate, and indeed, was of importance from every point of view, why, then I thought you should have some warning to that effect. But now that I have offered you my own opinion, you will consider with your usual sagacity what remains to be done. I should like you to inform me, however, about what time we are to expect you.

XI

M. Marcellus to Cicero

Mitylene, middle of October, 46 B.C.

1 You can easily believe that the weight of your judgement has ever had the greatest influence with me on every occasion, but most particularly in this last transaction. Though my cousin C. Marcellus, who is most devoted to me, not only advised me but urged me with prayers and entreaties as well, he failed to convince me, until your letter[1] definitely decided me to follow your advice and his, in preference to any other. You both give me in your letters a clear account of the way the matter was carried through. Of course, your felicitations are most acceptable to me, for they spring from a heart of gold, but what is far more delightful and flatter-

  1. ↑ Cicero's letter to M. Marcellus, giving an account of the debate in the Senate about his recall, to which this letter is an answer, has been lost.
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