Cicero to the Quatuor-viri, and Decuriones. Epist. 76.
THe friendship I enterteine with Quintus Hippius, growes from so many occasions, as there cannot be found a more absolute, then our con∣iunction. And were it not for this, I would follow my accustomed manner; which is, to be troublesome to you in nothing. For you can beare me suffici∣ent testimonie, that, though I were cer∣taine to obtaine whatsoeuer I desired; yet would I neuer be burdensome vnto you. I request you therefore as earnest∣ly as I can, or am able, that you will so farre fauour me, as to vse Caius Valgius Hippianus, with all courtesie, and make an end with him; by exempting, and making free that possession, which som∣times he bought of you, in the Fregellan territorie. If you satis••ie me in this my request, I shall thinke, I haue receiu'd a speciall benefit. Farewell.