17 surviving letters between Gaius Trebatius Testa and Marcus Tullius Cicero, spanning 49 BC.
“In every letter I send to Caesar or Balbus there is a regular appendix recommending you, and not an ordinary one, but on…”
“I do not stop recommending you, but I want to know from you what progress I am making.”
“Caesar has written to me very kindly.”
“For a long time I have had no idea what you are doing, since you write nothing.”
“I read your letter, from which I understood that our Caesar thinks you quite the jurist.”
“If you had not left Rome before, you would certainly leave it now.”
“I was wondering why you had stopped sending me letters.”
“Did you really think me so unfair that I was angry with you because you seemed too inconsistent and too eager to leave, …”
“Chrysippus Vettius, freedman of the architect Cyrus, made me think you had not forgotten me, since he delivered greetings from you.”
“How difficult people who love can be is clear from this: before, I was troubled that you were unwilling to stay where yo…”
“You know the line near the end of the Trojan Horse: "They grow wise too late.”
“From your letter I both thanked my brother Quintus and can at last praise you, because you now seem to have settled on some definite plan.”
“I received several letters from you at the same time, though you had sent them at different times.”
“See how much you count with me - and rightly, since I do not surpass you in affection.”
“Velia was more delightful to me because I saw that it loves you.”
“I explained Silius's case to you.”
“Yesterday over the cups you made fun of me because I said there was a dispute over whether an heir could properly bring …”