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Your letter gave me great pleasure, except for the contempt it expressed for my little lodge at Sinuessa. Ad Att. xiv. 8, Letter DCCVII This insult my bijou villa will much resent unless you make full and complete amends at Cumae and Pompeii. By staying with me in my villas there. Pray do so, and go on loving me and bombarding me with letters of some sort. For I am better at reply than at challenging. But if you continue idle about it, as you are at present, I shall have at you; and your want of spirit shall not produce inactivity in me. More when I have leisure: I scribble these lines while in the senate.
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Aulus Licinius Aristoteles of Melita has been my guest-friend for many years past, and is besides united to me by a very frequent and friendly intercourse. This being the case I feel sure that he is sufficiently recommended to you, For many people have told me that my recommendation has great weight with you. I secured this man's liberation from Caesar. For he had been constantly with us, and stuck even longer to that side than I did myself. This I think will make you think all the better of him. See therefore, my dear Rex, that he understands my letter to have been of very great service to him.