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ought to possess, you also would be what you formerly were—at once most worthy of every highest position and assuredly in your own order^[1] easily the foremost man.

But now that we have both been ruined under the same political conditions and for the same reason, I promise you not only what I have specified above, which is still mine to promise, but also whatever besides I seem to myself still to retain out of the remnants, as it were, of my old-time dignity. For Caesar himself, as I have been able to gather from many indications, is not unfavourably inclined to me, and practically all his most intimate friends also, being, as it so happens, under an obligation to me for signal services in the past, are showing me marked attention and respect.

And so, if I find any way open to me to deal with the matter of your fortunes, that is to say, your reinstatement in your rights—for everything depends upon that and what they tell me makes me daily more disposed to be hopeful about it—then I shall deal with it personally and energetically.

³ I need not go into details. All my devotion and friendliness I lay at your feet without reserve. But it is of great importance to me that all your people should know this, and all that is required is a letter from you, so that they may understand that whatever belongs to Cicero is at the disposal of Trebianus. My object in doing this is to convince them that nothing is so difficult but that my undertaking it on your behalf would be a pleasure.