Marcus Tullius Cicero→Acilius, proconsul of Sicily|c. 50 BC|Cicero|From Rome|To Sicily|Human translated
I commend to you Gaius Maenius Gemellus, my client and a man of the greatest integrity. Whatever services and kindnesses you show him, I shall consider as rendered to me personally. I ask you most earnestly to protect his interests.
DCLXXXVI (Fam. XIII, 37) TO MANIUS ACILIUS GLABRIO (IN SICILY) ROME: I recommend Hippias , son of Philoxenus , of Calacta , to you with more than common earnestness. His property, as the matter has been reported to me, is held by the state for a debt which is not properly his, contrary to the laws of the Calactini. If that is so, even without any recommendation from me, the merits of the case itself ought to secure him your assistance. But however the matter stands, I beg you as a compliment to me to expedite his case, and both in this and in all other matters to oblige him as far as your honour and position will allow. It will be doing me a very great favour.
XXXVII. Scr. Romae a.u.c. 708. CICERO ACILIO PROCONSULI SAL.
Hippiam, Philoxeni filium, Calactinum, hospitem et necessarium meum, tibi commendo in maiorem modum: eius bona, quemadmodum ad me delata res est, publice possidentur aliento nomine contra leges Calactinorum: id si ita est, etiam sine mea commendatione ab aequitate tua res ipsa impetrare debet, ut ei subvenias; quoquo modo autem se res habet, peto a te, ut honoris mei causa eum expedias tantumque ei commodes et in hac re et in ceteris, quantum tua fides dignitasque patietur: id mihi vehementer gratum erit.
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I commend to you Gaius Maenius Gemellus, my client and a man of the greatest integrity. Whatever services and kindnesses you show him, I shall consider as rendered to me personally. I ask you most earnestly to protect his interests.
Human translation - ToposText / Shuckburgh
Latin / Greek Original
XXXVII. Scr. Romae a.u.c. 708. CICERO ACILIO PROCONSULI SAL.
Hippiam, Philoxeni filium, Calactinum, hospitem et necessarium meum, tibi commendo in maiorem modum: eius bona, quemadmodum ad me delata res est, publice possidentur aliento nomine contra leges Calactinorum: id si ita est, etiam sine mea commendatione ab aequitate tua res ipsa impetrare debet, ut ei subvenias; quoquo modo autem se res habet, peto a te, ut honoris mei causa eum expedias tantumque ei commodes et in hac re et in ceteris, quantum tua fides dignitasque patietur: id mihi vehementer gratum erit.