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Epistulae ad Familiares, VI. vi.-vii.

For there needs must be less regret at being excluded from a ruined, than from a prosperous state. But there is no occasion for this kind of talk. Very soon I shall see you restored to your full rights; such is my hope or rather my clear conviction. Meantime I have long ago not only promised, but already placed at your disposal my zeal, attention, service, and industry while you are away, and at the disposal of him who is with us, that replica of his father in mind and body, your very staunch and admirable son; and that all the more unreservedly now that Caesar in the most friendly manner is making himself more and more agreeable to me every day, while as for his intimates, they make more of me than of anyone else. What influence I acquire with him, whether by personal ascendancy or by favour, that influence I shall use in your interests. See to it on your part that you hold your head up not only as a man of firm resolution, but as one inspired with the best of hopes.

VII

Aulus Caecina to Cicero

Sicily, December, 46 B.C.

1 My book[1] was not delivered to you as quickly as I you expected; well, for that you must pardon my timidity and pity my unhappy position. My son, I am told, was dreadfully afraid—and I don't blame him—that if the book had been published (since the spirit in which a book is written is not so important as the spirit in which it is taken), the publication of

  1. ↑ It is not clear whether this was Caecina's Book of Remonstrances (Liber Querellarum) mentioned in the preceding letter, and now sent to Cicero for his revision, or, as Watson inclines to think, a continuation of that book.
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