Marcus Tullius Cicero→Deiotarus|c. 50 BC|Cicero|From Rome|To Galatia|Human translated
I commend to you Gaius Maenius Gemellus, my client, and all his interests in your province. He is a man of the greatest integrity and loyalty. I ask you to protect him and to assist him in every way. This will be most welcome to me.
X (Fam. XIII, 52) TO Q. MARCIUS REX (IN SICILY?) ROME (AFTER B.C. 47) Aulus Licinius Aristoteles of Melita has been my guest-friend for many years past, and is besides united to me by a very frequent and friendly intercourse. This being the case I feel sure that he is sufficiently recommended to you, For many people have told me that my recommendation has great weight with you. I secured this man's liberation from Caesar . For he had been constantly with us, and stuck even longer to that side than I did myself. This I think will make you think all the better of him. See therefore, my dear Rex, that he understands my letter to have been of very great service to him.
LII. Scr. anno incerto. CICERO REGI SAL.
A. Licinius Aristoteles Melitensis antiquissimus est hospes meus et praeterea coniunctus magno usu familiaritatis: haec quum ita sint, non dubito, quin tibi satis commendatus sit; etenim ex multis cognosco meam commendationem plurimum apud te valere. Hunc ego a Caesare liberavi; frequens enim fuerat nobiscum, atque etiam diutius in causa est quam nos commoratus, quo melius te de eo existimaturum arbitror; fac igitur, mi Rex, ut intelligat has sibi litteras plurimum profuisse.
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I commend to you Gaius Maenius Gemellus, my client, and all his interests in your province. He is a man of the greatest integrity and loyalty. I ask you to protect him and to assist him in every way. This will be most welcome to me.
Human translation - ToposText / Shuckburgh
Latin / Greek Original
LII. Scr. anno incerto. CICERO REGI SAL.
A. Licinius Aristoteles Melitensis antiquissimus est hospes meus et praeterea coniunctus magno usu familiaritatis: haec quum ita sint, non dubito, quin tibi satis commendatus sit; etenim ex multis cognosco meam commendationem plurimum apud te valere. Hunc ego a Caesare liberavi; frequens enim fuerat nobiscum, atque etiam diutius in causa est quam nos commoratus, quo melius te de eo existimaturum arbitror; fac igitur, mi Rex, ut intelligat has sibi litteras plurimum profuisse.