Marcus Tullius Cicero→Unknown|c. -50 AD|Cicero|Human translated
Though, considering your attention to me and our close ties, I have no doubt of your remembering my recommendation, yet I again and again recommend to you the same L. Oppius, my intimate friend who is now in Rome, and the business of L. Egnatius, my very intimate friend who is now abroad. With the latter my connexion and intimacy are so strong, that I could not be more anxious if the business were my own. Wherefore I shall be highly gratified if you take the trouble too make him feel that I have as high a place in your affections as I think I have. You cannot oblige me more than by doing so: and I beg you warmly to do it.
LXXIV. Scr. Romae a.u.c. 699. M. CICERO Q. PHILIPPO PROCOS. SAL.
Etsi non dubito pro tua in me observantia proque nostra necessitudine, quin commendationem meam memoria teneas, tamen etiam atque etiam eundem tibi L. Oppium, familiarem meum, praesentem et L. Egnatii, familiarissimi mei, absentis negotia commendo. Tanta mihi cum eo necessitudo est familiaritasque, ut, si mea res esset, non magis laborarem; quapropter gratissimum mihi feceris, si curaris, ut is intelligat me a te tantum amari, quantum ipse existimo: hoc mihi gratius facere nihil potes, idque ut facias te vehementer rogo.
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Though, considering your attention to me and our close ties, I have no doubt of your remembering my recommendation, yet I again and again recommend to you the same L. Oppius, my intimate friend who is now in Rome, and the business of L. Egnatius, my very intimate friend who is now abroad. With the latter my connexion and intimacy are so strong, that I could not be more anxious if the business were my own. Wherefore I shall be highly gratified if you take the trouble too make him feel that I have as high a place in your affections as I think I have. You cannot oblige me more than by doing so: and I beg you warmly to do it.
Latin / Greek Original
LXXIV. Scr. Romae a.u.c. 699. M. CICERO Q. PHILIPPO PROCOS. SAL.
Etsi non dubito pro tua in me observantia proque nostra necessitudine, quin commendationem meam memoria teneas, tamen etiam atque etiam eundem tibi L. Oppium, familiarem meum, praesentem et L. Egnatii, familiarissimi mei, absentis negotia commendo. Tanta mihi cum eo necessitudo est familiaritasque, ut, si mea res esset, non magis laborarem; quapropter gratissimum mihi feceris, si curaris, ut is intelligat me a te tantum amari, quantum ipse existimo: hoc mihi gratius facere nihil potes, idque ut facias te vehementer rogo.