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To Atticus (Returning from Epirus)
Antium, April, 56 B.C.
It will be delightful if you come to see us here. You will find that
Tyrannio has made a wonderfully good arrangement of my books, the remains of
which are better than I had expected. Still, I wish you would send me a couple
of your library slaves for Tyrannio to employ as gluers, and in other
subordinate work, and tell them to get some fine parchment to make title -
pieces, which you Greeks, I think, call "sillybi." But all this is only if not
inconvenient to you. In any case, be sure you come yourself, if you can halt
for a while in such a place, and can persuade Pilia to accompany you. For that
is only fair, and Tulia is anxious that she should come. My word! You have
purchased a fine troop! Your gladiators, I am told, fight superbly. If you had
chosen to let them out you would have cleared your expenses by the last two
spectacles. But we will talk about this later on. Be sure to come, and, as you
love me, see about the library slaves.
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