[Footnote 543: A learned freedman of Atticus's.] [Footnote 544: See p. 250. Censors were elected this year, but the powers of the censorship had been much curtailed by a law of Clodius in B.C. 58.] [Footnote 545: Apius Claudius (brother of Clodius) was a candidate for the consulship of B.C. 54.] [Footnote 546: Clodius, a revolutionary, like Appuleius Saturninus. The feminine gender is an insult.] [Footnote 547: Either his poem "On his own Times," or the notes of events which he had promised in Letter CVIII, p. 231.] [Footnote 548: A treatise on union (περὶ ὁμονοίας). The rhetorician Dionysius of Magnesia had been with Cicero during his tour in Asia.] CXXIV (A IV, 12) TO ATTICUS (AT ROME) CUMÆ, APRIL [Sidenote: B.C. 55, ÆT. 51] Egnatius[549] is at Rome. But I spoke strongly to him at Antium about Halimetus's business. He assured me that he would speak seriously to Aquilius.[550] You will see the man therefore, if you please. I think I can scarcely be ready for Macro:[551] for I see that the auction at Larinum is on the Ides and the two days following. Pray forgive me for that, since you think so much of Macro. But, as you love me, dine with me on the 2nd, and bring Pilia. You must absolutely do so. On the 1st I think of dining at Crassipes' suburban villa as a kind of inn. I thus elude the decree of the senate. Thence to my town house after dinner, so as to be ready to be at Milo's in the morning.[552] There, then, I shall see you, and shall march you on with me. My whole household sends you greeting. [Footnote 549: L. Egnatius, who owed Q. Cicero money.] [Footnote 550: C. Aquilius Gallus, Cicero's colleague in the prætorship, and a busy advocate. See p. 13.] [Footnote 551: Apparently a money-lender.] [Footnote 552: Perhaps at his _sponsalia_, as he was married towards the end of the year.] CXXV (F VII, 23) TO M. FADIUS GALLUS ROME (MAY) [Sidenote: B.C. 55, ÆT. 51]