Chapter text=A:book=13:letter=11

TO ATTICUS (AT ROME) ARPINUM, 22 JUNE

"Not the same look." 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, he was losing all enjoyment of his Tusculan villa. Please therefore write and tell me whether Servilia 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: you see how pressing it is. Yet only if it is no inconvenience to you.