Cicero to Atticus, written from the Tusculanum on the eleventh day before the Kalends of June 709 AUC — 22 May 45 BC (Scr.\ in Tusculano xi K.\ Iun.\ a.\ 709 (45)). One of the bare notes that makes the cluster’s habit transparent: ego etsi nihil habeo quod ad te scribam, scribo tamen quia tecum loqui videor, “though I have nothing to write to you about, I write all the same, because I seem to be talking with you.” The household at the Tusculanum is the small steady group of 12.51 — Nicias and Valerius — and the day is built around the morning and afternoon arrivals of Atticus’s letters; the Montanus business of 12.52 has been put into a covering letter, with a second to one Marcianus, and Cicero is asking Atticus to fold them into the next packet going out.