Chapter text=A:book=12:letter=5.4

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, and shun the "originals" 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.