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whereby I may think it possible to arrive at the goal of our desires. In connexion with this whole affair I shall do more than I dare write; for everything else, though I know for certain you can have all for the asking from many other quarters, I have myself made every preparation; there is not a thing in my private possession that I had not sooner be yours than mine. I write the less fully about this matter and on the whole question, because I had rather leave you to hope for yourself, what I on my side consider a certainty, that you will come to your own again.
7 My last word is this: I beg and beseech you to be of good courage, and to bethink you not only of the discoveries for which you are indebted to other great men of science, but also of those you have yourself made by your own genius and research. If you make a list of them, it will give you every good hope, and you will endure what befalls you, of whatever nature it may be, as a philosopher should. But you know that better than I do, indeed, better than anybody. On my side, I shall give the most devoted and painstaking attention to what I see is of importance to you, and preserve unimpaired the memory of your services to me in the most gloomy period of my life.
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M. T. Cicero to Cn. Plancius[1]
Rome, January (?), 45 B.C.
1 I have had two letters from you, dated from Corcyra; in one of them you congratulated me because you had been told that I was maintaining
- ↑ Gnaeus Plancius was quaestor in 58, under the propraetor, L. Apuleius, in Macedonia where he showed great kindness to Cicero during his banishment. Having been elected curule aedile in 54, he was accused of bibery by M. Juventius, but Cicero defended him and he was acquitted. Having sided with the Pompeians in the Civil wars, he was now living in exile in Corcyra.