Decimus Brutus to Cicero, written from camp on the territory of the Statiellenses on 6 May 43 BC — Perseus dateline Scr. in castris in finibus Statiellensium prid. Non. Mai. a. 711 (43). The dispatch is the next day’s follow-up to 11.10 from Dertona: D. Brutus has moved his camp a stage further west, into the Ligurian territory of the Statielli, still pursuing Antony’s retreat. The intelligence picture has sharpened. Antony’s own captured correspondence shows he is heading to Lepidus and has not yet given up hope of detaching Plancus; D. Brutus has already written ahead to Plancus and is waiting on the envoys of the Allobroges and the rest of Gaul, whose confirmation will be the key to whether Plancus’s army stays on the senatorial side. The closing sentence — that the malevolence of men at Rome cannot frighten him out of his course by any abuse — is the same political stoicism as in 11.10, in shorter form.