CCXXX (F XIII, 56)
TO Q. MINUCIUS THERMUS (IN ASIA)
CILICIA
Cluvius 1 of Puteoli is very
attentive to and intimate with me. He believes
that, having business in your province, unless,
during your governorship, he has secured it by a
letter of recommendation from me, he will have to
put it down as lost and hopeless. Well, now, since
so heavy a burden is laid on me by a very kind
friend, I will also lay a burden on you, warranted
by your eminent services to me; and yet in doing
so I am unwilling to be troublesome to you. The
people of Mylasa and Alabanda owe Cluvius money.
Euthydemus told me, when I was at Ephesus, that he
would see that ecdici
2 were sent from Mylasa to Rome. That has not been done. I hear that legates
have been sent; but I prefer ecdici, in order that some settlement
may be made. Therefore I beg you to order them and
the Alabandians to send ecdici to Rome. Besides this, Philocles
of Alabanda has mortgaged some property to
Cluvius. The time of the mortgage has expired. I
would like you to see that he either gives up
possession of the property mortgaged and
surrenders it to Cluvius's agents, or pays the
money; and farther, that the people of Heraclea
and Bargylia, who are also in his debt, should
either pay the money or give him a lien on their
revenues. The people of Caunus also owe him money,
but they allege that they have placed the money on
deposit. I should like you to investigate that,
and, if you ascertain that they have not deposited
the money, either by edict or decree, to see that
Cluvius's claim to interest is secured to him by
your decision. 3
I am the more anxious on these points, because the
interests of our friend Cn. Pompeius is involved
also, and because he appears to me to be even more
anxious about it than Cluvius himself. 4 I am
very desirous that he should be satisfied with my
exertions on his behalf. On these matters I
earnestly and repeatedly ask your assistance.
CILICIA
