I valued your father very highly, and he cherished and loved me. Nor, by Hercules, have I ever doubted that your are fond of me; for my part, I have never ceased feeling the same way towards you. Therefore I ask you very earnestly to support the community of Buthrotum and try your hardest to get our dear Plancus to confirm and approve, as soon as possible, the consular decree passed in favour of the Buthrotians when the consuls had the authority to do so from both a law and a senatorial decree. I ask this, my Cupiennus, as an urgent and pressing favour.
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