Marcus Tullius Cicero→Unknown|c. -50 AD|Cicero|Human translated
Lucius and Gaius, sons of Lucius Aurelius, with whom, as with their excellent father, I am most intimately acquainted, I recommend to you with more than usual earnestness, as young men endowed with the best qualities, as being very closely allied to myself, and as being in the highest degree worthy of your friendship. If any recommendations of mine have ever had influence with you, as I know that many have had much, I beg you to let this one have it. If you treat them with honour and kindness, you will not only have attached to yourself two very grateful and excellent young men, but you will also have done me the very greatest favour.
XL. Scr. Romae a.u.c. 699. M. CICERO S. D. Q. ANCHARIO Q. F. PROCOS.
L. et C. Aurelios L. filios, quibus, et ipsis et patre eorum, viro optimo, familiarissime utor, commendo tibi maiorem in modum, adolescentes omnibus optimis artibus ornatos, meos pernecessarios, tua amicitia dignissimos. Si ulla mea apud te commendatio valuit—quod scio, multas plurimum valuisse—, haec ut valeat, rogo. Quod si eos honorifice liberaliterque tractaris, et tibi gratissimos optimosque adolescentes adiunxeris et mihi gratissimum feceris.
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Lucius and Gaius, sons of Lucius Aurelius, with whom, as with their excellent father, I am most intimately acquainted, I recommend to you with more than usual earnestness, as young men endowed with the best qualities, as being very closely allied to myself, and as being in the highest degree worthy of your friendship. If any recommendations of mine have ever had influence with you, as I know that many have had much, I beg you to let this one have it. If you treat them with honour and kindness, you will not only have attached to yourself two very grateful and excellent young men, but you will also have done me the very greatest favour.
Latin / Greek Original
XL. Scr. Romae a.u.c. 699. M. CICERO S. D. Q. ANCHARIO Q. F. PROCOS.
L. et C. Aurelios L. filios, quibus, et ipsis et patre eorum, viro optimo, familiarissime utor, commendo tibi maiorem in modum, adolescentes omnibus optimis artibus ornatos, meos pernecessarios, tua amicitia dignissimos. Si ulla mea apud te commendatio valuit—quod scio, multas plurimum valuisse—, haec ut valeat, rogo. Quod si eos honorifice liberaliterque tractaris, et tibi gratissimos optimosque adolescentes adiunxeris et mihi gratissimum feceris.