CDXIII (F XIV, 12)
[14.12] [Sh.413] TO TERENTIA (AT ROME)
BRUNDISIUM, 4 NOVEMBER
You say that you are glad of my safe arrival in Italy. I only hope you may continue to be glad. But I am afraid that, disordered as I was by mental anguish and the signal injuries which I have received, I have taken a step involving complications which I may find some difficulty in unravelling. [374] Wherefore do your best to help me: yet what you can do I cannot think. It is no use your starting on a journey at such a time as this. The way is both long and unsafe; and I don't see what good you can do me if you do come. Good-bye.
Brundisium, 4 November.