Cicero at Rome to Gaius Sextilius Rufus, quaestor of Cyprus, written in autumn 47 BC (the manuscript dateline: Scr. Romae, ut videtur, autumno anni 707 (47)). Cyprus had been annexed in 58 BC and attached administratively to the province of Cilicia, which Cicero himself had governed in 51–50. Sextilius is the first quaestor to be posted to the island as a separate appointment, and Cicero writes to him with the special authority of a recent ex-governor: he commends the whole provincial population, and the people of Paphos in particular, and points the young magistrate towards the precedents he should follow — the standing edict of Sextilius’s own kinsman Publius Cornelius Lentulus Spinther (governor of Cilicia 56–53 BC), and the practices Cicero himself had instituted in the province. The metadata entry carries a year-precision placeholder of -0047-05-05; the Perseus dateline points to autumn 47, which should be carried into the meta entry at the next consolidation pass.