in Cornutus we have a quasi-Cato. Can I say more? Now to return to private matters. "Teucris" has fulfilled her promise.[91] Pray execute the commission you undertook. My brother Quintus, who purchased the remaining three-fourths of the house in the Argiletum for 725 sestertia (about £5,800), is now trying to sell his Tusculan property, in order to purchase, if he can, the town house of Pacilius. Make it up with Lucceius! I see that he is all agog to stand for the consulship. I will do my best. Be careful to let me know exactly how you are, where you are, and how your business goes on. 13 February. [Footnote 85: The letter giving this description is lost. I think _frigebat_ is epistolary imperfect--"_he_ is in the cold shade," not, "_it_ fell flat."] [Footnote 86: πανήγυρις. Cicero uses the word (an honourable one in Greek) contemptuously of the rabble brought together at a market.] [Footnote 87: Pompey's general commendation of the decrees of the senate would include those regarding the Catiline conspirators, and he therefore claimed to have satisfied Cicero.] [Footnote 88: _Meis omnibus litteris_, the MS. reading. Prof. Tyrrell's emendation, _orationibus meis, omnibus litteris_, "in my speeches, every letter of them," seems to me even harsher than the MS., a gross exaggeration, and doubtful Latin. _Meis litteris_ is well supported by _literæ forenses et senatoriæ_ of _de Off._ 2, § 3, and though it is an unusual mode of referring to speeches, we must remember that they were now published and were "literature." The particular reference is to the speech _pro Imperio Pompeii_, in which, among other things, the whole credit of the reduction of Spartacus's gladiators is given to Pompey, whereas the brunt of the war had been borne by Crassus.] [Footnote 89: Fufius, though Cicero does not say so, must have vetoed the decree, but in the face of such a majority withdrew his veto. The practice seems to have been, in case of tribunician veto, to take the vote, which remained as an _auctoritas senatus_, but was not a _senatus consultum_ unless the tribune was induced to withdraw.] [Footnote 90: _Comperisse_. See Letter XVII, note 1, p. 28.] [Footnote 91: See Letters XVI and XVIII, pp. 26, 32.] XX (A I, 15) TO ATTICUS (IN EPIRUS) ROME, 15 MARCH [Sidenote: B.C. 61, ÆT. 45]