Chapter text=A:book=13:letter=24

TO ATTICUS (AT ROME) TUSCULUM (11 JULY)

What is this about Hermogenes Clodius having said that Andromenes told him that he had seen my son at Corcyra? I supposed that you must have heard it. Didn't he then give any letter even to him? Or didn't he see him? Pray therefore let me know. What answer am I to give you about Varro? You have the four parchment rolls in your hands: whatever you do I shall approve. It isn't after all a case of "fearing the Trojans." Why should I? But I am more afraid of his own disapprobation of the business. But since you undertake it—I shall sleep on both ears. About the "abatement" I have answered your full and careful letter. Please therefore settle the business, and that too without hesitation or reserve. This ought and must be done.