like you to inform me where they are, when they are to be fetched, and by what kind of conveyance. For if Damasippus doesn't abide by his decision, I shall look for some would-be Damasippus,[558] even at a loss. As to what you say about the house, as I was going out of town I intrusted the matter to my daughter Tullia:[559] for it was at the very hour of my departure that I got your letter. I also discussed the matter with your friend Nicias, because he is, as you know, intimate with Cassius. On my return, however, before I got your last letter, I asked Tullia what she had done. She said that she had approached Licinia[560] (though I think Cassius is not very intimate with his sister), and that she at once said that she could not venture, in the absence of her husband (Dexius is gone to Spain), to change houses without his being there and knowing about it. I am much gratified that you should value association with me and my domestic life so highly, as, in the first place, to take a house which would enable you to live not only near me, but absolutely with me, and, in the second place, to be in such a hurry to make this change of residence. But, upon my life, I do not yield to you in eagerness for that arrangement. So I will try every means in my power. For I see the advantage to myself, and, indeed, the advantages to us both. If I succeed in doing anything, I will let you know. Mind you also write me word back on everything, and let me know, if you please, when I am to expect you. [Footnote 553: C. Arrianus Evander, a dealer in statues, it seems, from whom Fadius had bought some for Cicero. He offers to let the debt for them (and so the interest) run from any day Cicero pleases.] [Footnote 554: A well-known connoisseur, mentioned by Horace, _Sat._ ii. 3, 64, _seq._. He seems to have offered to take the bargain off Cicero's hands.] [Footnote 555: That is, for his _palæstra_ or gymnasium, as he calls it, in his Tusculanum. See Letters I, II, VII.] [Footnote 556: An ornamental leg or stand for table or sideboard (_abacus_). See picture in Rich's _Dictionary of Antiquities_.] [Footnote 557: On the _via Appia_, where the canal across the marshes began. Cicero stops there a night between Formiæ and Pomptina Summa (_Att._ vii. 5).] [Footnote 558: One who professes to be an amateur of art like Damasippus.] [Footnote 559: As in Letter CVI, Tullia, not Terentia, seems to be in Cicero's confidence and presiding in his house. Terentia must already have been on bad terms with him, and perhaps was residing on her own property.] [Footnote 560: Half-sister of Gaius Cassius.] CXXVI (F VII, I) TO M. MARIUS (AT CUMÆ) ROME (OCTOBER?) [Sidenote: B.C. 55, ÆT. 51]