CCLXIX (A VI, 7)
TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)
TARSUS, JUNE (AFTER THE 26TH)
QUINTUS the younger has managed to reconcile
his father to your sister. He shewed real filial
feeling in the matter; and though it is true that
I earnestly exhorted him to do so, yet my
persuasion fell on willing ears Your letter moved
us both very strongly. Well! I feel confident that
things are as we wish. I have written to you twice
about money matters in Greek, and
enigmatically—if the letters have but
reached you. Of course no active step is to be
taken. Yet, by putting plain questions to him
1 about Milo's debts, and
by urging him to fulfil his obligations to me, you
will do some good. I have ordered my quaestor
Mescinius to await me at Laodicea, that I may be
able, in accordance with the Julian law, to leave
two copies of my accounts complete in two cities.
I then intend to go to Rhodes for the sake of the
boys, thence as soon as possible to Athens, though
the Etesian winds are strong against me. But I
wish to get home while the present magistrates are
in office, whose good disposition to myself I have
experienced in the matter of the supplication.
Nevertheless, be sure you send a letter to meet
me, to tell me whether in your opinion there is
any reason on the score of politics for my
delaying my return. Tiro would have written to
you, only I left him seriously ill at Issus. But I
have news that he is better. Nevertheless I am
distressed. For nothing can exceed that young
man's purity of conduct and attention to business.
TARSUS, JUNE (AFTER THE 26TH)
