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Cicero to Plancus. Epist. 22.
ALL our hope is in you, and your Colleague: and wee attend good effects from diuine fauour. Your a∣greement, which the Senate vnder∣stands by your letters, hath giuen won∣derfull contentmēt, both to the Senate, and also to the whole Citie. What you writ vnto me about the diuision of the Campes; if the Senators had been so∣licited for their opinions, I should haue ioyned with him, that had yeelded the honourablest opinion of you: which sentence, I my selfe would haue pro∣nounced: but, seeing that the time would draw vs on too long, by reason of the opinions deliuered in sundry mat∣ters, of which, none concluded anie thing; it seemed verie conuenient to mee, and to your brother Plan••us, to make vse of that decree; about which, who, was an impediment, that it was not made according to our minde, I suppose, by the letters of your said bro∣ther, you haue vnderstood. But, if you desire any thing, either in the Senates decree, or in any other respect: bee perswaded of this, that the affection, all good men beare you is so great, that you can imagine no kinde of ho••our,