Cicero to Appius Claudius Pulcher, written from Rome on 6 July 43 BC — Perseus dateline Scr. Romae prid. Non. Quint. a. 711 (43). The recipient is the younger Appius, son of the consul of 54 to whom the long series of letters in Ad Familiares book 3 was addressed; this Appius is a Pompeian who had been proscribed (damnatus) by the Caesarians in 47, restored after Caesar’s death, and is now again in some kind of danger, perhaps in connection with the senatorial proceedings of the spring of 43.

The letter is the standard short reassurance to a client in trouble: I have done more for you than your own people could, I have laid the foundations of your safety, take heart and trust me. The dateline by Roman subscription is pridie Non. Quint., the day before the Nones of Quintilis (the month not yet renamed July) — 6 July 43 BC, six weeks after Mutina and four months before Cicero’s own proscription.