Cicero to Atticus, written 8 April 58 BC at Nares Lucanae, in the Lucanian uplands south of the via Popilia. The cause of the journey: Cicero could not lawfully stay any longer at his old friend Sicca’s estate (presumably at Vibo) before the second Clodian bill — the one naming Cicero by name and fixing his exile at four hundred miles from Italy — has been amended; the bill in its current form would have made even Sicca a criminal for harbouring him. Brundisium is his goal, but Autronius (an exiled Catilinarian who had taken refuge in the heel of Italy) makes the route hazardous without Atticus. The letter is the first to give a date and place at the foot, the convention that begins here and runs through the exile correspondence: data vi Idus Aprilis Naribus Lucanae.