11 surviving letters between Gaius Scribonius Curio and Marcus Tullius Cicero, spanning 50-49 BC.
“Although I am sorry that you suspected me of neglect, I was not so much annoyed to have my duty criticized by you as ple…”
“I have lost, in your father, a powerful witness to my deep affection for you.”
“Rupa was certainly eager to promise public games in your name, but neither I nor any of your friends approved of anythin…”
“You know that there are many kinds of letters.”
“How matters stand here, I hardly dare describe even in a letter.”
“News had not yet arrived that you were approaching Italy when I sent Sextus Villius, a close friend of my Milo, to you with this letter.”
“A late congratulation is not usually blamed, especially when no negligence caused the delay.”
“Quintus Pompeius, son of Sextus, is bound to me by many old ties of friendship.”
“I remember when I thought you were being foolish to live with those people rather than with us.”
“I no longer urge or ask you to come home; rather I myself wish to fly from here and arrive somewhere "where I may hear n…”
“I easily perceived from your letter what I always wished: both that I am very highly valued by you and that you understand how dear you are to me.”