Cicero, Imperator; to Appius Pulcher (as I hope) Censor. Ep. 11.
LYing with the Campe neere to the riuer Pyramus, I ••eceiued at one time two of your letters, which Quin∣••us Seruilius sent me from Ta••sus: one was written the v. of Aprill: the other, which seemed the latt••r, bare no date. I will first therefore answer to the for∣mer. Whereas you write vnto me, that you are cle••red of the imputed crime of Maiestie: of which successe, though I vnderstood by le••ters, by messengers, and finally by fame it selfe, (for nothing could be more divulg'd: not that any man thought otherwise, but because all the occasions of renowned men, are euer spred with a common voyce) yet your owne letters multiplied my ioy; not onely in that they reuealed what was past, more abundantly then others