Letter 307

"Not the same look." I thought it was easy; but it is quite the reverse, now I am farther away from you. But it had to be done, that I might fix some trifles like the rents of my farms and might not lay too great a burden of attendance on our friend Brutus. For in the future we shall find ourselves able to cultivate each other's society at Tusculum more easily. But at the present time, when he wanted ille me cotidie videre vellet, ego ad illum ire non possem, privabatur omni delectatione Tusculani. Tu igitur, si Servilia venerit, si Brutus quid egerit, etiam si constituerit, quando obviam, quicquid denique erit, quod scire me oporteat, scribes. Pisonem, si poteris convenies. Vides, quam maturum sit. Sed tamen, quod commodo tuo fiat.

plane nihil erat quod ad te scriberem; modo enim discesseras et paulo post triplicis remiseras. velim cures fasciculum ad Vestorium deferendum et aliquoi des negotium qui quaerat. Q. Staberi fundus num quis in Pompeiano Nolanove venalis sit. epitomen Bruti Caelianorum velim mihi mittas et a Philoxeno Panaiti/ou peri\ Pronoi/aj . te Idibus videbo cum tuis.