Letter 51

I commend to you Marcus Bolanus most warmly. He is a man of the highest integrity and my most intimate friend. Whatever you do for him will be most welcome to me.

VI (Fam. XIII, 51) TO P. CAESIUS ROME: I commend P. Messienus to you, a Roman knight, a man adorned by every kind of accomplishment, and very intimate with me. This recommendation is meant to be of the most earnest kind possible; and in the name of our own friendship and that of our fathers, I beg you to receive him into your confidence and to protect his property and reputation. You will have secured a good man and one worthy of your friendship, and you will have greatly obliged me.

LI. Scr. anno incerto. M. CICERO P. CAESIO S. D. P. Messienum, equitem Romanum omnibus rebus ornatum meumque perfamiliarem, tibi commendo ea commendatione, quae potest esse diligentissima: peto a te et pro nostra et pro paterna amicitia, ut eum in tuam fidem recipias eiusque rem famamque tueare: virum bonum tuaque amicitia dignum tibi adiunxeris mihique gratissimum feceris.