Cicero to Brutus, immediately after Fam. 13.11 and the companion to it: the same three Arpinate legates have been commended collectively, but Q. Fufidius is now singled out for a particular word. Fufidius is the stepson of M. Caesius (Cicero’s closest friend at Arpinum and one of the three aediles of 13.11), and had served Cicero as military tribune in Cilicia in 51–50 BC, where he conducted himself with such generosity that the proconsul “seemed to have received the favour, not given it.” The closing note that he is “no stranger to our studies” is the standard Ciceronian compliment to a man of literary culture — the surest recommendation to Brutus, whose own philosophical and rhetorical interests are about to bloom into the dialogue Cicero will dedicate to him in 46 BC.