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Epistulae ad Familiares, IV. xv.

XV

Cicero to the same

Rome, some time in 46 B.C.

1 I am in receipt of your very short letter, which did not enable me to discover what I was anxious to know, though I did discover what I had never doubted. In other words, how bravely you were bearing our common calamities, I had no means of learning; how sincerely you loved me, I could easily perceive; but the latter I knew already; had I known the former, I should have written accordingly.

2 But despite the fact that I have previously written as much as I considered ought to be written, I have yet thought it necessary at such a crisis as this to caution you briefly not to imagine that you are in any special danger of your own; we are all in great danger, but after all it is a common danger. It is not right then that you should either demand for yourself alone any special privilege of fortune, or repudiate the fortune that has befallen us all. Let us, therefore, continue to be on the same terms of mutual friendship as we always have been. What I can but hope for in your case, I can guarantee in my own.

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