Cicero to Atticus, written from Tusculum during the intercalary month at the end of 46 BC (the manuscript dateline: Scr.\ in Tusculano m.\ interc.\ post a.\ 708 (46)). A single short section, continuing the conversation of 12.7 about young Marcus’s Spanish project. The first installment of his allowance is due and “the man is in a hurry,” so the practical question of timing presses. Cicero asks Atticus for a report from Celer on Caesar’s dealings with the candidates — and whether Caesar’s own mind is set on the fenicularium, the “Fennel-field” of southern Spain where he is preparing to fight Pompey’s sons, or on the Martium campum, the Campus Martius in Rome, where the consular elections would be held. The pun on the two campuses is the whole letter’s wit. A closing note: Cicero owes a visit to Pilia and Attica at Rome, and wants to know whether the elections require him there anyway.