Cicero to C. Curtius Peducaeanus, praetor at Rome, written from Laodicea after the third day before the Ides of February (after 11 February) 50 BC (the manuscript dateline: Scr. Laudiceae post a. d. iii Id. Febr. a. 704 (50)). A second recommendation in the same conventional shape as 13.58, sent off in what appears to have been a single dispatch.

The beneficiary is M. Fadius, of whom Cicero says: unice diligo — “I value him beyond measure” — with an intimacy of very long standing. The form is the courteous-restrained one: not asking the praetor to bend his edict, only asking him to grant ease of access, a fair hearing, and the visible warmth of friendship to a suitor who matters to Cicero, with the formula vehementer etiam atque etiam rogo carrying the weight of the request.