Archagethus and C. Clodius Philo. But I am afraid that, owing to the number of people I recommend to you, I may appear to be putting all my recommendations on the same footing from some ulterior motive. Still, I would have you believe that this family and these members of it are united to me by a long-standing friendship, by mutual services, and by goodwill. Therefore I beg you, with more than common earnestness, to oblige them in every way, as far as your honour and official position shall allow you. You will exceedingly oblige me by doing so.
DCLXXXII (F XIII, 33)
TO MANIUS ACILIUS GLABRIO (IN SICILY)
Rome
I am exceedingly intimate with Gnæus Otacilius Naso,
certainly as much so as with any man of his order. For in
our daily intercourse I am greatly delighted with his kindness
and honesty. You need not stop to see in what precise
words I recommend a man to you, with whom I am
as intimate as I have said. He has some business in your
province, which is being managed by his freedmen Hilarus,
Antigonus, and Demostratus. These men and all Naso's
affairs I commend to you as though they were my own. I
shall feel very grateful if I learn that this recommendation
has had great weight with you. Good-bye.
DCLXXXIII (F XIII, 34)
TO MANIUS ACILIUS GLABRIO (IN SICILY)
Rome
I have ties of hospitality with Lyson, son of Lyson, of
Lilybæum, dating from the times of his grandfather. I con-
