Marcus Tullius Cicero→Appuleius, proquaestor|c. 50 BC|Cicero|From Rome|To Rome|Human translated
I commend to you Publius Helvius, a man of equestrian rank and the highest integrity, most closely connected with me. I ask you to protect his interests and to show him every kindness.
V (Fam. XIII, 46) TO APPULEIUS (IN ASIA) ROME: Lucius Nostius Zoilus is a co-heir with me, and besides that the heir of his patron. I state these two facts both to show you that I have reason to be his friend, and to convince you that he must be an honest man to have received such a compliment from his patron. I therefore recommend him to you as though he were a member of my house-hold. I shall be very grateful if you will take pains to make him understand that my recommendation has been of great service to him with you.
XLVI. Scr. Romae a.u.c. 699. CICERO APPULEIO SAL.
L. Nostius Zoilus est coheres meus, heres autem patroni sui: ea re utrumque scripsi, ut et mihi cum illo causam amicitiae scires esse et hominem probum existimares, qui patroni iudicio ornatus esset. Eum tibi igitur sic commendo, ut unum ex nostra domo: valde mihi gratum erit, si curaris, ut intelligat hanc commendationem sibi apud te magno adiumento fuisse.
◆
I commend to you Publius Helvius, a man of equestrian rank and the highest integrity, most closely connected with me. I ask you to protect his interests and to show him every kindness.
Human translation - ToposText / Shuckburgh
Latin / Greek Original
XLVI. Scr. Romae a.u.c. 699. CICERO APPULEIO SAL.
L. Nostius Zoilus est coheres meus, heres autem patroni sui: ea re utrumque scripsi, ut et mihi cum illo causam amicitiae scires esse et hominem probum existimares, qui patroni iudicio ornatus esset. Eum tibi igitur sic commendo, ut unum ex nostra domo: valde mihi gratum erit, si curaris, ut intelligat hanc commendationem sibi apud te magno adiumento fuisse.