Marcus Caelius, to Cicero. Epist. 17.
ACcursed bee the Fortune, which was the cause, that I was rather in Spaine then at Formiae, when you went to Pompeius. But I would to God, that either Appius Claudius had not beene of your part, or Caius Curio of ours; whose friendship hath drawne me to that side, which maintaines the more vniust cause. For I know, that hatred, and loue haue bereaued me of my best sen∣ses. And you also, when I came to you by night to Ariminum, performed the office of an excellent Cittizen, but not of a Friend; giuing me commission to treate of peace with Caesar, without ad∣uising me at all in that, which concer∣ned me. Neither thinke I speake this,