Certaine epistles of Tully verbally translated: together with a short treatise, containing an order of instructing youth in grammer, and withall the use and benefite of verball translations

Marcus Cicero S.D. T. Furfano procos. 31 6 9

I haue alwaies had

so great familiarity

and acquaintance

with Aulus Cecinna,

that

none

can

be

greater.

For

we haue lived very much with

both

his father,

an honourable person

and

a couragious man.

And

I haue ever so loved

this man

from a child,

because

both

hee put mee in great hope,

of very good behavi∣our

& singular eloquence,

and

did liue

with me

very familiarly,

not onely

in the duties

of friendship,

but also

in common studies:

that

I could not liue

more inwardly

with any man,

I haue no great cause

v. it nothing pertai∣neth

to write more,

v. mee to w. many things,

You see

how needfull

it is

for me

to defend

his safety,

and

estate,

v. fortunes,

by what meanes soe∣ver

I may.

It remaineth,

that,

seeing

I haue knowne

by many occasions,

what

you thinke

both

of the state

of good men,

and

of the miseries

of y^e common-wealth

I craue

nothing else

of you,

but

that

so great an encrease

v. s. g. an heape,

may come

through my commē∣dation,

to that good liking,

which

you are to haue

of Caecinna

of your owne accord

as

I understand

that I am esteemed

of you.

You can

do

no greater pleasure

for me

then this.

Fare you well.