C. Cassius (proconsul) to Cicero, from the camp at Tarichea on 7 March 43 BC — Perseus dateline Scr. in castris Tadolicis Non. Mart. a. 711 (43), with the subscription ex castris taricheis. A military dispatch in the formulaic opening of campaign correspondence (si vales bene est, ego quidem valeo, here abbreviated). Cassius reports the consolidation of force in the East that gives Fam. 12.4 and 12.5 their substance: the armies of L. Staius Murcus and Q. Marcius Crispus have been turned over to him, together with the legion of Q. Caecilius Bassus and the four legions A. Allienus brought out of Egypt. The note to Cicero is brief, decisive, and meant to be read at Rome by the Senate: a senior commander assuring the civilian leader that the republican cause has armies in the field.