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UP to this time the only thing stopping me is the weather. I am not going in for any sharp practice. Let what will happen in Spain, nevertheless my decision stands-partons! I have explained all my ideas to you in a previous letter. Therefore this is a short one, as also because I am in haste and more busy than usual. As to young Quintus, "I am doing my best"—you know the rest. Ter. Adelph. 414, Fit sedulo, nihil praetermitto, consuefacio. But it is not certain that this is the quotation, or whether there is really any quotation. Your next piece of advice is at once friendly and wise: but everything else will be plain sailing, if I only keep on my guard against him. The younger Quintus. It is no easy task: there are many perplexing traits in his character: no simplicity, no straightforwardness. I could wish that you.had undertaken the management of the young man. For his father is too indulgent: whenever I tighten the rein, he slackens it again. If I had been able to act without his father, I should have controlled him: and this you can do. But I excuse you: it is, I say, no light task. I regard it as certain that Pompey is going through Illyricum into Gaul. This, of course, turned out to be a false report. By what route and whither I am to go now, I shall consider.