have, for the sake of settling the affairs of the municipium, consented that my son, and nephew, and M. Cæsius—a very intimate friend of mine—should be ædiles; for that and no other is the magistrate customarily elected in our municipium.[1] You will have contributed to the reputation of these last, if the public business of the municipium should, thanks to your kindness and attention, turn out to have been well managed. I beg you warmly and repeatedly to do this.
CCCCLI (F XIII, 12)
TO M. IUNIUS BRUTUS (IN CISALPINE GAUL)
Rome (?)
In another letter I have commended our commissioners
from Arpinum in a body as earnestly as I could. In this
with still greater earnestness I commend Q. Fufidius to you
separately—with whom I have ties of all kinds—not to detract
at all from the former commendation, but to put in this
one in addition. He has two special claims on me: he is a
stepson of M. Cæsius, who is a very intimate friend and close
connexion of mine; and he served under me in Cilicia as a
military tribune, in which office he conducted himself in such
a way as to make me feel that I had received a kindness
from him, rather than conferred one. He is besides—which
is of very great weight with you—by no means without taste
for our favourite studies. Wherefore I would have you admit
him to your society without the least reserve, and take pains
to make his labour on this commission—which he has undertaken
to his own inconvenience and at my instigation—as
complete a success as possible. For he wishes, as the best
men naturally do, to earn the utmost possible credit both
- ↑ Confirmed by an inscription, C. I. L. i. 1178. In this inscription the name of Fufidius occurs among the three ædiles, shewing that the Fufidii were a family of Arpinum. From one of them Quintus Cicero bought a property. See vol. i., p. 292.
