Cicero and his friends

by Gaston Boissier

[265]. Caes. 47.

[266]. Ad fam. vii. 7.

[267]. Suet. Caes. 67.

[268]. Suet. Caes. 46, 48.

[269]. Ad Quint. iii. 1.

[270]. Ad Quint. iii. 9.

[271]. Ad Quint. ii. 15.

[272]. Ibid. ii. 16.

[273]. Cic. Brut. 72, and Pliny, Hist. nat. vii. 30.

[274]. Caesar wrote to Cicero twice from Britain. The first letter took twenty-six days to reach Rome, and the second twenty-eight. This was quick travelling for that time, and we see that Caesar must have organized his mail-service well. Furthermore, we know his stay in Britain was very short.