[Footnote 66: From expressions in the following letters it seems certain that this refers to money expected from Gaius Antonius; but we have no means of deciding whether or no Teucris is a pseudonym for some agent. Cicero had undertaken to be the advocate and supporter of Antonius, and though as an actual _patronus_ in court he could not take money, he may have felt justified in receiving supplies from him. Still, he knew the character of Antonius, and how such wealth was likely to be got, and it is not a pleasant affair.] [Footnote 67: Money-lenders.] [Footnote 68: The rich and cross-grained uncle of Atticus. See Letter X.] [Footnote 69: Cicero quotes half a Greek verse of Menander's, ταὐτόματον ἡμῶν, leaving Atticus to fill up the other two words, καλλίω βουλεύεται, "Chance designs better than we ourselves."] [Footnote 70: Mucia was suspected of intriguing with Iulius Cæsar.] [Footnote 71: The chief festival of the Bona Dea (Tellus) was in May. The celebration referred to here took place on the night between the 3rd and 4th of December. It was a state function (_pro populo_), and was celebrated in the presence of the Vestals and the wife of the consul or prætor urbanus, _in ea domo quæ est in imperio_. As Cæsar was Pontifex Maximus, as well as prætor urbanus, it took place in the _Regia_, the Pontiff's official house (Plutarch, _Cic._ 19; Dio, xxxvii. 35).] XVII (F V, 5) TO C. ANTONIUS (IN MACEDONIA) ROME, JANUARY _M. Cicero wishes health to Gaius Antonius, son of Marcus, Imperator._ [Sidenote: B.C. 61, ÆT. 45]