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Epistulae ad Familiares, V. v.-vi.

no gratitude, I shall not make the mistake of letting myself be suspected of lunacy, yes, even by you yourself.[1] What is impending, and what it all means, you can ascertain from Pomponius. And as regards Pomponius himself, I commend him to you so warmly, that although I am sure you will do all in your power for the sake of the man himself, I none the less beg of you, if there still lurks in your heart any affection for me, to show it unreservedly in dealing with Pomponius's business. You can do nothing that would give me greater pleasure than that.

VI

M. Cicero to P. Sestius[2] in Macedonia

Rome, December, 62 B.C.

1 Decius the copyist paid me a visit and entreated me to make every effort to prevent the appointment for the present of anybody to succeed you; now although he impressed me as being an honest fellow and on friendly terms with you, still, having a clear recollection of the purport of your previous letter to me, I did not feel quite convinced that a man of your shrewdness had so completely changed his mind. But after your wife Cornelia had called upon Terentia, and I had had a conversation with Q. Cornelius,[3] I was particularly careful to attend every single meeting of the Senate, and what gave me most trouble was to compel Q. Fufius,[4] tribune

  1. ↑ "The very recipient of my kindness."
  2. ↑ Proquaestor to C. Antonius in Macedonia. Cicero defended him later, in Feb. 56 B.C., on a charge de vi in the speech Pro Sestio.
  3. ↑ Brother of Cornelia, the wife of Sestius; they were the children of C. Cornelius Scipio.
  4. ↑ Q. Fufius Calenus, consul in 47, a persistent opponent of Cicero.
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