Cicero to the quattuorviri and decuriones — the four-man board and town councillors — of an Italian municipium (the manuscripts: Scr.\ Romae anno incerto fort.\ 691 (63); the Perseus dateline conjectures 63 BC, though the works.yaml entry holds the work in the Book 13 placeholder year, 54 BC, with an outer range to 44 BC). The town is not named in the salutation, but the body of the letter (in agro Fregellano) points to one of the communities that had taken over former Fregellan land after Fregellae’s destruction in 125 BC. The letter is a recommendation in two short sections of the standard Book 13 shape: Cicero’s tie with Q. Hippius is so close that nothing could be more intimate, and on its strength he asks the town’s magistrates to deal as generously as possible with C. Valgius Hippianus, settling matters so that the holding Valgius bought from them in the Fregellan country may be held free and exempt — presumably of municipal vectigal. The captatio is the polished one Cicero reserves for collective addressees: he could have asked them for anything (and they themselves are his witnesses to that), but has always made it his rule not to be a burden.