Cicero to Atticus, written from Lanuvium on the morning of the sixteenth day before the Kalends of June 709 AUC — 17 May 45 BC (the manuscript dateline: Scr.\ Lanuvi xvi K.\ Iun.\ mane a.\ 709 (45)). A morning note before the day’s last stage of the journey. Cicero has read whatever Hirtius has sent — almost certainly the anti-Catonian pamphlet, written at Cicero’s prompting — and tells Atticus to keep circulating it. Philotimus, Terentia’s freedman and a recurring trouble in the settlement business, gets a single agreeing line.

The middle of the letter is the cluster’s quiet domestic register: Caesar moving in next door to Atticus is a wry boost to property values; the courier is expected back with news of Pilia and Attica; Atticus is happy at home. The close is the arrangement that drives the next two letters — Tiro has been told Atticus will come to the Tusculanum at once, and Cicero will hold him to it.