[Footnote 76: A word lost in the text.] [Footnote 77: See end of Letter XXI. Cicero playfully supposes that Atticus only stayed in his villa in Epirus to offer sacrifices to the nymph in his gymnasium, and then hurried off to Sicyon, where people owed him money which he wanted to get. He goes to Antonius first to get his authority for putting pressure on Sicyon, and perhaps even some military force.] [Footnote 78: C. Calpurnius Piso (consul B.C. 67), brother of the consul of the year, had been governor of Gallia Narbonensis (B.C. 66-65), and had suppressed a rising of the Allobroges, the most troublesome tribe in the province, who were, in fact, again in rebellion.] [Footnote 79: M. Pupius Piso.] [Footnote 80: "By the expression of his face rather than the force of his expressions" (Tyrrell).] [Footnote 81: See p. 27, note 2.] [Footnote 82: Pompey.] [Footnote 83: Or, "inclose with my speech"; in both cases the dative _orationi meæ_ is peculiar. No speech exists containing such a description, but we have only two of the previous year extant (_pro Flacco_ and _pro Archia Poeta_). Cicero was probably sending it, whichever it was, to Atticus to be copied by his _librarii_, and published. Atticus had apparently some other works of Cicero's in hand, for which he had sent him some "queries."] [Footnote 84: Apparently the speech in the senate referred to in Letter XIV, p. 23, spoken on 1st January, B.C. 62. Metellus had prevented his _contio_ the day before.] XIX (A I, 14) TO ATTICUS (IN EPIRUS) ROME, 13 FEBRUARY [Sidenote: B.C. 61, ÆT. 45]