Chapter text=F:book=12:letter=20

TO QUINTUS CORNIFICIUS (IN CAMPANIA) ROME

Your letter gave me great pleasure, except for the contempt it expressed for my little lodge at Sinuessa. This insult my bijou villa will much resent unless you make full and complete amends at Cumae and Pompeii. Pray do so, and go on loving me and bombarding me with letters of some sort. For I am better at reply than at challenging. But if you continue idle about it, as you are at present, I shall have at you; and your want of spirit shall not produce inactivity in me. More when I have leisure: I scribble these lines while in the senate.