DCXXII (A XIII, II)
[13.11] [Sh.622] TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)
ARPINUM, 22 JUNE
"Not the same look." [1175] I thought I shouldn't mind. It was quite the reverse, when I found myself more widely separated from you. But I had to do it, both in order to settle the small rents of my properties, and to avoid burdening Brutus with the necessity of shewing me attention. For at a future time we shall be able to keep up our acquaintance at Tusculum on easier terms. But at the present juncture, when he wanted to see me every day and I could not go to him, [1176] he was losing all enjoyment of his Tusculan villa. Please therefore write and tell me whether Servilia [1177] has arrived, whether Brutus has taken any decided step, even if he has determined on doing so, and when he starts to meet Caesaranything in fact that I ought to know. If you can, call on Piso: [1178] you see how pressing it is. [1179] Yet only if it is no inconvenience to you.