CCXIV (F XV, 8)
TO GAIUS CLAUDIUS MARCELLUS
(AUGUR)
(LYCAONIA, SEPTEMBER)
That your son Marcellus has been elected
consul, and that you have experienced the joy
which you above all things desired, give me
extraordinary pleasure, and that both for his own
sake, and because in my opinion you richly deserve
every success of the best sort: for I have had
reason to know your unexampled goodness to me both
in weal and woe ; in fact, I have experienced the
greatest kindness and the most eager support from
your whole family, whether it were a question of
my civil existence or official advancement.
Wherefore I shall be much obliged if you will
congratulate for me that most revered and
excellent lady, your wife Iunia. From yourself I
ask your habitual regard and support in my
absence.
(LYCAONIA, SEPTEMBER)