Cicero Vice-consull, to Appius Pulcher Imperator. Ep. 3.
WHen I came to Brundusium, the xxii. of May, Quintus Fabius your Lega••e, came to seeke me: and by your order told me that which not one∣ly I, whom it concerned, but the whole Senate also call'd to mind; that t••is Prouinc•• requir'd a stronger gu••tiso••. For almost all were of opinion, that my Legions, and those of Bibulu•• should be made vp with Italian souldiers. Where∣unto Sulpicius the Consull, saying, he would not consent, I much complai∣ned thereof; but the Senate so greatly hastned my departure, that I was for∣ced to obey him, as I did Now I desire, you would carry in mind, what I de∣maunded of you in the letters, whi••h I deliuered at Rome to your posts: which was, that whatsoeuer one could effect, for the ease of a domesticall and louing friend, in visiting the Prouince, you would procure with all affection and diligēce, for the inuiolable loue I beare you: that euery one might plainly dis∣cerne,