Cicero at Rome to Gaius Munatius, son of Gaius, written after his return from the eastern campaign, probably late in 46 BC (the manuscript dateline: Scr. Romae post reditum fortasse ex. a. 708 (46), where the Perseus text’s ex. a. 698 appears to be a transcription slip for ex. a. 708). A short recommendation of Lucius Livineius Trypho, freedman of Cicero’s friend L. Regulus, whose own calamitas — presumably his civil-war condemnation — has put Cicero under a renewed obligation to his household. The freedman, however, is loved on his own merits, for services rendered during “those times of ours” (the civil-war years following Pharsalus, when Cicero was detained at Brundisium): Trypho had run many risks for Cicero’s sake and made repeated voyages through the depth of winter — a glancing reference to the courier duties freedmen of well-placed households so often performed for their patrons’ friends in that period.