Marcus Tullius Cicero→Unknown|c. -50 AD|Cicero|Human translated
I AM obliged to you for many instances of your attention to my recommendations, but above all for your very courteous treatment of M. Marcilius, son of my friend and interpreter. He has arrived at Laodicea, and in an interview with me has expressed great gratitude to you, and to myself on your account. I therefore ask you as a farther favour, that, as you find your kindness well laid out and meeting with grati- tude from those persons, you would be still more ready to oblige them, and would endeavour, as far as your honour shall permit, to prevent the young man's mother-in-law from being prosecuted. I recommended Marcilius to you before with some earnestness : I do so now with still greater, be- cause, in a long course of his service as apparitor, I have found his father Marcilius to be peculiarly and almost in- credibly trustworthy, disinterested, and scrupulous, * The killing of Clodius, which he had before called the " battle of Bovillae" (Letter CCII). It took place 18 January, B.C. 52. Allow- ing for an intercalated month of twenty-three days in one of these years, this dates the letter 22 February. F 3Cin, 54, 57 TO Q. MINUCIUS THERMUS I47
LIV. Scr. Laodiceae mense Martio a.u.c. 704. CICERO THERMO PROPR. SAL.
Quum multa mihi grata sunt, quae tu adductus mea commendatione fecisti, tum in primis, quod M. Marcilium, amici atque interpretis mei filium, liberalissime tractavisti; venit enim Laodiceam et tibi apud me mihique propter te gratias maximas egit. Quare, quod reliquum est, a te peto, quoniam apud gratos homines beneficium ponis, ut eo libentius iis commodes operamque des, quoad fides tua patietur, ut socrus adolescentis rea ne fiat. Ego quum antea studiose commendabam Marcilium, tum multo nunc studiosius, quod in longa apparitione singularem et prope incredibilem patris Marcilii fidem, abstinentiam modestiamque cognovi.
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I AM obliged to you for many instances of your attention to my recommendations, but above all for your very courteous treatment of M. Marcilius, son of my friend and interpreter. He has arrived at Laodicea, and in an interview with me has expressed great gratitude to you, and to myself on your account. I therefore ask you as a farther favour, that, as you find your kindness well laid out and meeting with grati- tude from those persons, you would be still more ready to oblige them, and would endeavour, as far as your honour shall permit, to prevent the young man's mother-in-law from being prosecuted. I recommended Marcilius to you before with some earnestness : I do so now with still greater, be- cause, in a long course of his service as apparitor, I have found his father Marcilius to be peculiarly and almost in- credibly trustworthy, disinterested, and scrupulous, * The killing of Clodius, which he had before called the " battle of Bovillae" (Letter CCII). It took place 18 January, B.C. 52. Allow- ing for an intercalated month of twenty-three days in one of these years, this dates the letter 22 February. F 3Cin, 54, 57 TO Q. MINUCIUS THERMUS I47
Quum multa mihi grata sunt, quae tu adductus mea commendatione fecisti, tum in primis, quod M. Marcilium, amici atque interpretis mei filium, liberalissime tractavisti; venit enim Laodiceam et tibi apud me mihique propter te gratias maximas egit. Quare, quod reliquum est, a te peto, quoniam apud gratos homines beneficium ponis, ut eo libentius iis commodes operamque des, quoad fides tua patietur, ut socrus adolescentis rea ne fiat. Ego quum antea studiose commendabam Marcilium, tum multo nunc studiosius, quod in longa apparitione singularem et prope incredibilem patris Marcilii fidem, abstinentiam modestiamque cognovi.