Chapter text=A:book=13:letter=47

TO ATTICUS (AT ROME) TUSCULUM, 15 AUGUST

"When your order, Agamemnon, reached my ears," not "to come"—for that, too, I should have done, had it not been for Torquatus —but to write, "I at once" gave up what I had begun, threw aside what I had in hand, and "hewed out a model of thy design." I wish you would ascertain from Pollex the state of my accounts. It is not becoming that my son should be straitened in this his first year at Athens. Afterwards we will be more particular in keeping down his expenses. Pollex also must be sent back to Puteoli, in order that Vestorius may accept the inheritance. It is clear that I must not go there, both for the reasons mentioned in your letter and because Caesar is near at hand. Dolabella writes to say that he is coming to see me on the 14th. What a tiresome instructor!