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Epistulae ad Familiares, VI. ix.-xa.

EPISTULAE AD FAMILIARES. VI. ix. -xa. towards Caecina on your own account may be so abundantly enhanced by my recommendation as not to fall short of the esteem I understand you have for myself. You can do nothing that would give me greater pleasure than this.

Xa

Cicero to Trebianus[1]

Rome, September (?), 46 B.C.

1 How highly I esteem and always have esteemed you, and how highly I am assured you esteem me, I can testify for myself. For I have been much troubled by your policy, or rather your misfortune, in remaining too long in civil war, and the present result—that the recovery of your estate and position takes more time than it properly should, and than I could have wished—is no less an anxiety to me than my misfortunes have always been to you. I have accordingly revealed my inmost thoughts to Postumulenus and Sestius and, oftener than to anyone, to our friend Atticus, and most recently of all to your freedman Theudas, and frequently assured each of them individually that I desired in every possible way to satisfy your own and your children's expectations; and I should be glad if you would write to your people to the effect that they must consider all I can command, at any rate,—my endeavours, advice, possessions, and loyalty—as at their beck and call for any purpose whatever.

2 Did I possess that influence and popularity which, in that state I have served in the way you know, I

  1. ↑ Nothing more is known of Trebianus than may be gathered from this and the next letter.
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