Marcus Tullius Cicero→Unknown|c. -58 AD|Cicero|AI-assisted
I have enjoyed a very close friendship for many years with Aulus Trebonius, who has large, extensive, and well-established business interests in your province. He has always been held in the highest regard there, both on account of his own distinction and through the recommendation of myself and our other friends; but at this time, because of your affection for me and the bond between us, he is firmly confident that this letter of mine will secure him your favor. I earnestly ask you not to disappoint that hope, and I commend to you all his affairs, his freedmen, his agents, and his household. In particular, I ask that you uphold the decisions that Titus Ampius made regarding his interests, and that you treat him in all matters in such a way that he may understand my recommendation was no ordinary one.
III. Scr. Romae mense Ianuario a.u.c. 698. M. CICERO S. D. P. LENTULO PROCOS.
A. Trebonio, qui in tua provincia magna negotia et ampla et expedita habet, multos annos utor valde familiariter: is cum antea semper et suo splendore et nostra ceterorumque amicorum commendatione gratiosissimus in provincia fuit, tum hoc tempore propter tuum in me amorem nostramque necessitudinem vehementer confidit his meis litteris se apud te gratiosum fore; quae ne spes eum fallat, vehementer rogo te commendoque tibi eius omnia negotia, libertos procuratores familiam, in primisque ut, quae T. Ampius de eius re decrevit, ea comprobes omnibusque rebus eum ita tractes, ut intelligat meam commendationem non vulgarem fuisse.
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I have enjoyed a very close friendship for many years with Aulus Trebonius, who has large, extensive, and well-established business interests in your province. He has always been held in the highest regard there, both on account of his own distinction and through the recommendation of myself and our other friends; but at this time, because of your affection for me and the bond between us, he is firmly confident that this letter of mine will secure him your favor. I earnestly ask you not to disappoint that hope, and I commend to you all his affairs, his freedmen, his agents, and his household. In particular, I ask that you uphold the decisions that Titus Ampius made regarding his interests, and that you treat him in all matters in such a way that he may understand my recommendation was no ordinary one.
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III. Scr. Romae mense Ianuario a.u.c. 698. M. CICERO S. D. P. LENTULO PROCOS.
A. Trebonio, qui in tua provincia magna negotia et ampla et expedita habet, multos annos utor valde familiariter: is cum antea semper et suo splendore et nostra ceterorumque amicorum commendatione gratiosissimus in provincia fuit, tum hoc tempore propter tuum in me amorem nostramque necessitudinem vehementer confidit his meis litteris se apud te gratiosum fore; quae ne spes eum fallat, vehementer rogo te commendoque tibi eius omnia negotia, libertos procuratores familiam, in primisque ut, quae T. Ampius de eius re decrevit, ea comprobes omnibusque rebus eum ita tractes, ut intelligat meam commendationem non vulgarem fuisse.