Letter 288

I felt all the time how much good your presence was doing me: but I feel it still more since you have gone. So, as I wrote to you before, either I must come to you entirely or you to me, according as it can be managed. Yesterday, soon after your departure, I think, some people, who looked like city men, brought me a message and a letter from Gaius Marius, son and grandson of Gaius. He begged me in the name of our relationship, in the name of Marius, on whom I had written, and by the eloquence of his grandfather, L. Crassus, to defend him: and he stated his case in full. I wrote back that he had no need of an advocate since his relative Caesar was omnipotent, and he was the best and most liberal of men: but I would support him. What times these are! To think of Curtius wondering whether to stand for the consulship. But enough of this. I am anxious about Tiro. But I shall know soon how he is, for yesterday I sent a man to see, and I gave him a letter to you too. I have sent you a letter for my son. Please tell me for what day the sale of the gardens is advertised.

de Attica optime. )Akhdi/a tua me movet, etsi scribis nihil esse. in Tusculano eo commodius ero quod et crebrius tuas litteras accipiam et te ipsum non numquam videbo; nam ceteroqui a)nekto/tera erant Asturae. nec haec quae refricant hic me magis angunt; etsi tamen, ubicumque sum, illa sunt mecum. de Caesare vicino scripseram ad te, quia cognoram ex tuis litteris. Eum su/nnaon Quirini malo quam salutis. tu vero pervulga Hirtium. id enim ipsum putaram quod scribis, ut cum ingenium amici nostri probaretur, u(po/qesij vituperandi Catonis inrideretur.