4 surviving letters between Aulus Manlius Torquatus and Marcus Tullius Cicero, spanning 48 BC.
“Marcus Cicero sends warm greetings to Aulus Torquatus.”
“I ask you not to think that I write to you less often than I used to from any forgetfulness of you, but either because o…”
“In my previous letter, led more by goodwill than because the situation demanded it, I was longer than necessary.”
“There was nothing new for me to write to you, and yet, if there had been, I knew that you were usually informed by your own people.”