B.C. 46, ÆT. 60 from me, who urged him to undertake it, and from the municipium. This he will succeed in doing, if by this recommendation of mine he secures your good services.
CCCCLII (F XIII, 3)
TO M. IUNIUS BRUTUS (IN CISALPINE GAUL)
Rome (?)
L. Castronius Pætus, a long way the most important
citizen of the municipium of Luca, is honourable, high-minded,
very obliging, and, in short, a really good man,
adorned with excellent qualities, and, if that is at all to
the point, with ample means to boot. He is, moreover,
very intimate with me; so much so, that there is no one
in the senate to whom he is more attentive than myself.
Anything you do to oblige him will be a source of pleasure
to yourself, and at any rate will be gratefully received by me.
CCCCLIII (F XIII, 14)
TO M. IUNIUS BRUTUS (IN CISALPINE GAUL)
Rome (?)
I am very intimate with L. Titius Strabo, one of the most
honourable and accomplished of the Roman knights.
Services of every sort which belong to the closest intimacy
have been interchanged between myself and him. P. Cornelius
in your province owes him a sum of money. That
case has been referred by Volcatius, the prætor urbanus, for
trial in Gaul. I beg you more earnestly than if it were
business of mine—in proportion as it is more honourable to
take trouble about one's friends' money than one's own—to
