Marcus Tullius Cicero→Gaius Sextilius Rufus|c. 50 BC|Cicero|From Rome|To Rome|Human translated
Gaius Anicius Ciber, a man of the highest integrity and most closely connected with me, has interests in your province. I commend him and his affairs to you with the greatest care. I ask you to protect him and assist him in every way.
VIII (Fam. XIII, 48) TO SEXTILIUS RUFUS (QUAESTOR IN CILICIA) ROME: I commend all the Cyprians to you, but more especially the Paphians . Anything you can do to oblige the latter will be regarded with great gratitude by me. I have the more pleasure in commending them to you because I think it will conduce to your reputation (of which I am ever a supporter), as you are the first to enter the island as a quaestor, if you establish precedents for others to follow. You will, I hope, secure this with greater ease if you decide to follow the law of your connexion Publius Lentulus , and the regulations made by myself. This course I feel sure will redound to your honour.
XLVIII. Scr. anno incerto (post 704). M. CICERO C. SEXTILIO RUFO QUAESTORI SAL. D.
Omnes tibi commendo Cyprios, sed magis Paphios, quibus tu quaecumque commodaris, erunt mihi gratissima, eoque facio libentius, ut eos tibi commendem, quod et tuae laudi, cuius ego fautor sum, conducere arbitror, quum primus in eam insulam quaestor veneris, ea te instituere, quae sequantur alii, quod, ut spero, facilius consequere, si et P. Lentuli, necessarii tui, legem et ea, quae a me constituta sunt, sequi volueris, quam rem tibi confido magnae laudi fore.
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Gaius Anicius Ciber, a man of the highest integrity and most closely connected with me, has interests in your province. I commend him and his affairs to you with the greatest care. I ask you to protect him and assist him in every way.
Human translation - ToposText / Shuckburgh
Latin / Greek Original
XLVIII. Scr. anno incerto (post 704). M. CICERO C. SEXTILIO RUFO QUAESTORI SAL. D.
Omnes tibi commendo Cyprios, sed magis Paphios, quibus tu quaecumque commodaris, erunt mihi gratissima, eoque facio libentius, ut eos tibi commendem, quod et tuae laudi, cuius ego fautor sum, conducere arbitror, quum primus in eam insulam quaestor veneris, ea te instituere, quae sequantur alii, quod, ut spero, facilius consequere, si et P. Lentuli, necessarii tui, legem et ea, quae a me constituta sunt, sequi volueris, quam rem tibi confido magnae laudi fore.