my
despondency by telling me it would be--one of great dignity and
popularity: this is a return to old times for you and me effected, my
brother, by your patience, high character, loyalty, and, I may also add,
your conciliatory manners. The house of Licinius, near the grove of
Piso,[462] has been taken for you. But, as I hope, in a few months'
time, after the 1st of July, you will move into your own. Some excellent
tenants, the Lamiae, have taken your house in Carinae.[463] I have
received no letter from you since the one dated Olbia. I am anxious to
hear how you are and what you find to amuse you, but above all to see
you yourself as soon as possible. Take care of your health, my dear
brother, and though it is winter time, yet reflect that after all it is
Sardinia that you are in.[464]

15 February.

[Footnote 456: Milo impeached by Clodius before the _comitia tributa_
for his employment of gladiators. Dio (xxxix. 18) says that Clodius thus
impeached Milo, not with any hope of securing his conviction against the
powerful support of Cicero and Pompey, but to get the chance of
insulting these latter. Marcellus was one of the candidates for the
aedileship with Clodius. See Letter XCI.]

[Footnote 457: In B.C. 129, after making a speech in favour of the
claims of the Italians for exemption from the agrarian law of Gracchus,
Scipio AEmilianus, the younger Africanus, was found dead in his bed. The
common report was that he had been assassinated by Carbo, or with his
privity, but it was never proved (see _de Orat._ ii. Sec. 170). Cicero does
not here assume the truth of the story, he merely repeats Pompey's
words.]

[Footnote 458: M. Tullius Albinovanus. It was on this charge _de vi_
that Cicero defended Sestius in the extant speech. The charge of bribery
does not appear to have been proceeded with.]

[Footnote 459: _Adlegatos_, probably commissioners named to receive and
report on a deposition of an informer before the senate acted.]

[Footnote 460: L. Calpurnius Piso Bestia, a candidate in the last
election of aediles.]

[Footnote 461: Cn. Domitius Calvinus, consul B.C. 53. In the Civil War
he sided with Pompey, and perished at sea after Thapsus (B.C. 46).]

[Footnote 462: _Ad lucum Pisonis_. The place is not known, but there is
not sufficient reason for the change to _ad lacum Pisonis_, a place
equally unknown.]

[Footnote 463: A part of Rome on the slope of the Mons Oppius.]

[Footnote 464: _I.e._, get out of