13 surviving letters between Appius Claudius Pulcher and Marcus Tullius Cicero, spanning 51 BC.
“If the republic itself could speak and tell you how it stands, you could not learn it more easily from its own mouth than from your freedman Phania.”
“Although, contrary to my own wishes and to my surprise, it has turned out that I must go to a province with imperium [fo…”
“When I arrived at Brundisium on May 22, your legate Quintus Fabius Vergilianus was waiting for me.”
“On June 4, while I was at Brundisium, I received your letter saying that you had instructed Lucius Clodius about what you wished him to say to me.”
“I arrived at Tralles on July 27.”
“When I compare my conduct with yours, I do not give myself more credit than you for preserving our friendship, but I am …”
“I will send you a fuller letter when I have more leisure.”
“Although, so far as I could gather from your letter, I saw that you would not read this until you were near Rome, when t…”
“At last I have read a letter worthy of Appius Claudius, full of kindness, courtesy, and care.”
“Written at Laodicea in the month of May (between the Kalends and the Nones), 704 from the founding of the city.”
“While I was in camp on the river Pyramus, two letters from you were delivered to me at the same time, forwarded by Quintus Servilius from Tarsus.”
“I will congratulate you first, for that is what the order of events demands, and then I will turn to myself.”
“As though I had foreseen that one day I would need your energetic support in such a duty, I worked hard for your reputat…”