Marcus Tullius Cicero→Acilius, proconsul of Sicily|c. 50 BC|Cicero|From Rome|To Sicily|Human translated
I am on the most intimate terms with Lucius Livineius Regulus, and I commend him to you most warmly. I ask you to treat him with the generosity that befits your character and to protect his interests in your province. Whatever you do for him will be most welcome to me.
DCLXXXVII (Fam. XIII, 38) TO MANIUS ACILIUS GLABRIO (IN SICILY) ROME: L. Bruttius a Roman knight, a young man of every sort of accomplishment, is among my most intimate friends, and shows me very constant attention. I have had a great friendship with his father from the time of my Sicilian quaestorship. In point of fact Bruttius is at this moment staying with me at Rome : still I recommend his house, his property, and his agents to you with an earnestness beyond which I cannot go in such a recommendation. You will exceedingly oblige me if you take the trouble to let Bruttius feel, as I have assured him will be the case, that my recommendation has been of great assistance to him.
XXXVIII. Scr. Romae a.u.c. 708. CICERO ACILIO PROCONSULI SAL.
L. Bruttius, eques Romanus, adolescens omnibus rebus ornatus, in meis familiarissimis est meque observat diligentissime, cuius cum patre magna mihi fuit amicitia iam inde a quaestura mea Siciliensi. Omnino nunc ipse Bruttius Romae mecum est; sed tamen domum eius et rem familiarem et procuratores tibi sic commendo, ut maiore studio commendare non possim. Gratissimum mihi feceris, si curaris, ut intelligat Bruttius, id quod ei rerepi, hanc meam commendationem sibi magno adiumento fuisse.
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I am on the most intimate terms with Lucius Livineius Regulus, and I commend him to you most warmly. I ask you to treat him with the generosity that befits your character and to protect his interests in your province. Whatever you do for him will be most welcome to me.
Human translation - ToposText / Shuckburgh
Latin / Greek Original
XXXVIII. Scr. Romae a.u.c. 708. CICERO ACILIO PROCONSULI SAL.
L. Bruttius, eques Romanus, adolescens omnibus rebus ornatus, in meis familiarissimis est meque observat diligentissime, cuius cum patre magna mihi fuit amicitia iam inde a quaestura mea Siciliensi. Omnino nunc ipse Bruttius Romae mecum est; sed tamen domum eius et rem familiarem et procuratores tibi sic commendo, ut maiore studio commendare non possim. Gratissimum mihi feceris, si curaris, ut intelligat Bruttius, id quod ei rerepi, hanc meam commendationem sibi magno adiumento fuisse.