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Epistulae ad Familiares, VI. viii.-ix.

be apprised of it to prove myself the most zealous of men. Although the personal interview I shall have with Furfanius will make it quite unnecessary for you to have a letter from me to him, still, as it is the pleasure of your relations that you should have a letter from me to put in his hands, I have humoured them. A copy of that letter is transcribed below.

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Cicero to Furfanius, Proconsul of Sicily

(enclosed in the preceding letter)

1 Nobody could possibly be on terms of more familiar intimacy with anybody than I have always been with Aulus Caecina. For not only did I enjoy much of the society of that distinguished man and gallant gentleman, his father, but for this Caecina from his very boyhood, both because he gave me great hopes of high integrity and extraordinary eloquence, and also because our lives were very closely knit together by the mutual favours of friendship as well as by community of tastes—for him, I say, I have always had such an affection that there was no man in the world with whom I lived on terms of greater intimacy.

2 I need write no more. You see for yourself how necessary it is for me to look after his welfare and property in every possible way. It only remains for me, now that I have more proofs than ever to assure me of your sentiments regarding the fortune of loyal citizens and the disasters of the state, to make this one request of you, and no more—that the goodwill you would have been likely to entertain

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