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Epistulae ad Familiares, V. xx.

to make your own entries tally with the accounts I had already handed in—unless I am mistaken; for there are others who know more about it than I do. But mind that you never doubt my doing everything I possibly can do that I consider to be to your interest, or even in accordance with your wishes.

7 As to what you write about the special service rewards,[1] let me tell you that I have sent in the names of my military tribunes, and prefects, and staff—of my own staff at least. And there, indeed, I made a miscalculation; I was under the impression that the time allowed for sending in the names was unlimited; I was afterwards informed that it was necessary to send them in within thirty days of sending in my accounts. I was genuinely grieved that those rewards were not left for you to recommend in furtherance of your political aspirations, rather than for me, who had no such aspirations. Anyhow, as regards the centurions and staffs of the military tribunes no action has yet been taken; for that class of special service rewards had no time or limit attached to it by law.

8 There remains the matter of the hundred sestertia,[2] about which I remember having had a letter brought me from you when you were at Myrina,[3] admitting the error to be not mine but yours; though your cousin and Tullius appeared to be responsible for the mistake, if there was one. But since it could not be rectified, because I had already deposited my accounts and quitted the province, I believe that, in accordance with my friendly inclinations and my financial prospects at the time, I replied to you in terms of the warmest sympathy. But I neither think that the sympathy I then expressed in my letter amounted to a pecuniary obligation, nor

  1. ↑ The governor of a province on his return to Rome gave the Treasury a list of those on his staff or personal suite to whom he had granted rewards for special service (beneficia), which would appear in the accounts.
  2. ↑ A sum for which Rufus, through some error in the accounts, was indebted to the Treasury—about £800 in our money.
  3. ↑ A seaport town in Aeolia.
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