LXXXV (A III, 25)374
To Atticus (? in Epirus)
Dyrrachium (December)
B.C. 58, ÆT 48
After you left me I received a letter from Rome, from which I see clearly that I must rot away in this state of disfranchisement: for I can’t believe (don’t be offended at my saying so) that you would have left town at this juncture, if there had been the least hope left of my restoration. But I pass over this, that I may not seem to be ungrateful and to wish everything to share my own ruin. All I ask of you is what you have faithfully promised, that you will appear before the 1st of January wherever I may be.