4 surviving letters between Marcus Porcius Cato and Marcus Tullius Cicero, spanning 47 BC.
“Envoys sent to me by Antiochus of Commagene came to the camp at Iconium on August 28.”
“Your great authority, and my constant judgment of your exceptional virtue, made me think it mattered greatly that you sh…”
“I gladly do what the republic and our friendship urge me to do: I rejoice that your virtue, integrity, and energy, alrea…”
“I am glad to be praised, Hector says somewhere in Naevius, I think, by a revered elder who has himself been praised.”