CDLXV (A XII, 5, § 4)
[12.5.4] [Sh.465] TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)
TUSCULUM, 12 JUNE
I have sent Tiro to meet Dolabella. He will be returning to me on the 13th. I shall expect you the next day. I see that you regard my dear Tullia's interests as of the first importance. I beg you earnestly to let it be so. So then she is still completely uncommitted; for so you say in your letter. Though I had to avoid the Kalends, [1017] and shun the "originals" [1018] of the Nicasiones, and had to balance my accounts, yet there was nothing to make up for my absence from you. When I was at Rome and thought every moment that I was going to catch a sight of you, even so every day the hours of waiting seemed long. You know I am by no means a flatterer, and so I considerably understate my feelings.