March 44 BCE: To Cicero (at Rome) from Aulus Pompeius Bithynicus (in Sicily)
Bithynicus asks for a favour
If I did not have many good reasons for my friendship with you myself, I would have reached for the beginnings of that friendship—from our parents—but I think that that must must only be done by those who do not continue the friendship of their parents with their own kindnesses.
And so I shall be content with our own friendship, and depend upon it in asking that you protect my interests in my absence, wherever it is needed, if only you consider that no kindness of yours towards me will ever fade away. Goodbye.
Read Ad Familiares 6.16 in Latin here | Check the glossary here