CCCCXLII (A XI, 20)
TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)
Brundisium, 15 August
On the 14th of August Gaius Trebonius arrived from Seleucia
Pieria[1] after twenty-seven days' journey, to tell me that at
Antioch he saw the younger Quintus in Cæsar's company
along with Hirtius: that they had got all they wanted in
regard to the elder Quintus, and that without any trouble.
I should have been more rejoiced at this if the concessions
to myself[2] conveyed any certainty of hope. But, in the first
place, there are others, and among them Quintus, father and
son, from whom I have reason to entertain other fears; and,
in the next place, grants made by Cæsar himself as absolute
master are again within his power to revoke. He has pardoned
even Sallustius: he is said to refuse absolutely no
one. This in itself suggests the suspicion that judicial investigation
is held over for another time. M. Gallius, son
of Quintus, has restored Sallustius his slaves. He came to
transport the legions to Sicily: he said that Cæsar intends
to go thither straight from Patræ.[3] If he does that I shall
come to some place nearer Rome, which I could wish I had
done before. I am eagerly waiting for your answer to my
last letter, in which I asked for your advice.[4] Good-bye.
15 August.*
- ↑ The port of Antioch. Schmidt reads C. Treboni libertus. It does seem unlikely that Trebonius should have gone to Asia between the end of his prætorship (B.C. 48) and the beginning of his proconsulship in Bætica some time late in B.C. 47, yet it is not impossible, for he was only sent there when Cæsar heard of the misconduct and failure of Cassius (B. Alex. 64).
- ↑ Those contained in the courteous letter of Cæsar, which yet did not convey a formal pardon.
- ↑ I.e., instead of coming to Italy. Sicily would be the point of departure for attacking the Pompeians in Africa.
- ↑ The last letter to Atticus does not ask for advice on this situation, and none exists giving an account of Cæsar's letter. Therefore it has
