Cicero to Seruius Sulpus. Epist. 28.
THough I willingly seeke vnto you in the occurrents of my friends, yet I am more willingly thankefull, when you haue done any thing, as you doe alwayes vpon my recommendat••on. For you would not beleeue, how manie thankes they returne me, whom I com∣mended vnto you; yea, euen they in whose recommendation I wrote but coldly. All which things are acceptable to me; but the courtesie you shew'd to Lucius M••ssinius, is most acceptable. For he told me, that you had no sooner read my letters, but you presently of∣fred all your assistance to his agents, and that afterwards in effects, you did farre more then in words you had pro∣mised. I would haue you therefore to thinke, (for I can neuer be satisfied in vttering it) that you haue done me her••in a singular pleasure. Wherein I reioyce the more, obseruing that f••om