hat you should value
association with me and my domestic life so highly, as, in the first
place, to take a house which would enable you to live not only near me,
but absolutely with me, and, in the second place, to be in such a hurry
to make this change of residence. But, upon my life, I do not yield to
you in eagerness for that arrangement. So I will try every means in my
power. For I see the advantage to myself, and, indeed, the advantages to
us both. If I succeed in doing anything, I will let you know. Mind you
also write me word back on everything, and let me know, if you please,
when I am to expect you.

[Footnote 553: C. Arrianus Evander, a dealer in statues, it seems, from
whom Fadius had bought some for Cicero. He offers to let the debt for
them (and so the interest) run from any day Cicero pleases.]

[Footnote 554: A well-known connoisseur, mentioned by Horace, _Sat._ ii.
3, 64, _seq._. He seems to have offered to take the bargain off Cicero's
hands.]

[Footnote 555: That is, for his _palaestra_ or gymnasium, as he calls it,
in his Tusculanum. See Letters I, II, VII.]

[Footnote 556: An ornamental leg or stand for table or sideboard
(_abacus_). See picture in Rich's _Dictionary of Antiquities_.]

[Footnote 557: On the _via Appia_, where the canal across the marshes
began. Cicero stops there a night between Formiae and Pomptina Summa
(_Att._ vii. 5).]

[Footnote 558: One who professes to be an amateur of art like
Damasippus.]

[Footnote 559: As in Letter CVI, Tullia, not Terentia, seems to be in
Cicero's confidence and presiding in his house. Terentia must already
have been on bad terms with him, and perhaps was residing on her own
property.]

[Footnote 560: Half-sister of Gaius Cassius.]

CXXVI (F VII, I)

TO M. MARIUS (AT CUMAE)

ROME (OCTOBER?)

[Sidenote: B.C. 55, AET. 51]

If some bodily pain or weakness of health has prevented your coming to
the games, I put it down to fortune rather than your own wisdom: but if
you have made up your mind that these things which the rest of the world
admires are only worthy of contempt, and, though your health would have
allowed of it, you yet were unwilling to come, then I rejoice at both
facts--that you were free from bodily pain, and that you had the sound
sense to disdain what others causelessly admire. Only I hope that some
fruit of your leisure may be forthcoming, a leisure, indeed, which you
had a splendid opportunity of enjoying to the ful