5 surviving letters between Marcus Marius and Marcus Tullius Cicero, spanning 49-45 BC.
“If some physical pain or weakness kept you from coming to the games, I credit fortune more than your wisdom.”
“I will take care of your commission diligently.”
“Very often when I reflect on our common miseries, in which we have been entangled for so many years and, as I see, shall…”
“On the twenty-fifth I came to my Cumaean estate with your Libo, or rather ours.”
“I did not dare send our friend Salvius to you without a letter; yet by Hercules I had nothing to write, except that you …”