Cicero to Thermus vice-Praetor. Epist. 54.
OF many offices, which you haue per••ormed, vpon my recommen∣dation, there's none, for which I hold my selfe mo••e bound vnto you, then for the singular cou••t••sie vsed to Marcus Marcilius, so•• vnto my friend, and my interpreter. Who comming to Laodicea, highly extolled you, and gaue me infi∣nite thankes, because at my request, you had conf••rred vpon him your fauour. Wherefore nothing now remaines, but to request you, that seeing you bes••ow benefits on grat••full persons, that you will for this respect, be the more fauou∣rable to them; and v••e all meanes, that stand with your reputation, that the mother in law of the said young man, be not cal'd in question. As before I care∣fully commended Marcilius, so now I recommend him much more carefully, hauing by long seruice had experience of the singular, and as it were, incredi∣ble fidelitie, abstinence, and modestie, of the father of Marcilius. Farewell.