Marcus Tullius Cicero→Publius Servilius Isauricus|c. 50 BC|Cicero|From Rome|To Rome|Human translated
Publius Cuspius, a man of equestrian rank and the highest integrity, is my very close friend. I commend his interests in your province to you most warmly and ask you to protect them with all the care and attention you can.
DVII (Fam. XIII, 70) TO P. SERVILIUS VATIA ISAURICUS (IN ASIA) ROME: YOUR affection for me is so notorious that many seek to be recommended to you by my means. Now I grant that favour at times indiscriminately, but generally only to close friends, as in the present instance: for I am very intimate and very closely connected with T. Ampius Balbus . His freedman T. Ampius Menander , a man of strict morals, good conduct, and highly thought of both by his patron and myself, I commend to you with no common warmth. You will do me a very great favour, if you will oblige him in any matters consistent with your own convenience. I earnestly ask you again and again to do so.
LXX. Scr. Romae a.u.c. 708. M. CICERO P. SERVILIO COLLEGAE SAL. PLUR.
Quia non est obscura tua in me benevolentia, fit, ut multi per me tibi velint commendari; ego autem tribuo nonnumquam in vulgus, sed plerumque necessariis, ut hoc tempore; nam, cum T. Ampio Balbo mihi summa familiaritas necessitudoque est: eius libertum, T. Ampium Menandrum, hominem frugi et modestum, et patrono et nobis vehementer probatum, tibi commendo maiorem in modum. Vehementer mihi gratum feceris, si, quibuscumque rebus sine tua molestia poteris, ei commodaris: quod ut facias, te vehementer etiam atque etiam rogo.
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Publius Cuspius, a man of equestrian rank and the highest integrity, is my very close friend. I commend his interests in your province to you most warmly and ask you to protect them with all the care and attention you can.
Human translation - ToposText / Shuckburgh
Latin / Greek Original
LXX. Scr. Romae a.u.c. 708. M. CICERO P. SERVILIO COLLEGAE SAL. PLUR.
Quia non est obscura tua in me benevolentia, fit, ut multi per me tibi velint commendari; ego autem tribuo nonnumquam in vulgus, sed plerumque necessariis, ut hoc tempore; nam, cum T. Ampio Balbo mihi summa familiaritas necessitudoque est: eius libertum, T. Ampium Menandrum, hominem frugi et modestum, et patrono et nobis vehementer probatum, tibi commendo maiorem in modum. Vehementer mihi gratum feceris, si, quibuscumque rebus sine tua molestia poteris, ei commodaris: quod ut facias, te vehementer etiam atque etiam rogo.