Gaius Cassius Longinus & Marcus Tullius Cicero

“You commend Marcus Fadius to me as a friend, but I make no new acquisition in him.”

“Although each of us wished to be absent from the obstinacy of an unnecessary war, from the hope of peace and hatred of c…”

“I think you must be somewhat ashamed by now, since this is the third letter that has caught you before you have sent a scrap or a single word.”

“You have your couriers in the wrong order; not that I mind, but still, when they leave me they demand letters, and when …”

“My letter would have been longer if it had not been requested of me at the very moment of the messenger's departure.”

“Decimus Brutus to his friends Brutus and Cassius, greetings.”

“Written at the end of May, 710 from the founding of the city [44 BC].”

“I am very glad that my view and my speech have your approval.”

“Your friend grows madder every day.”

“I wish you had invited me to dinner on the Ides of March.”

“I suppose winter has so far kept us from having certain news about what you are doing, and especially where you are.”

“Cicero to Cassius, greetings.”

“I would rather you learn from your family than from me how zealously I defended your standing, both in the Senate and before the people.”

“I think you have learned from the official records, which I know are sent to you, about the crime of your relative Lepid…”

“The brevity of your letters makes me briefer in writing too, and, to tell the truth, I cannot quite find what to write.”

“Lepidus, your relative by marriage and my friend, was declared an enemy by the Senate on June 30 by unanimous vote, alon…”