Cicero to his wife Terentia, written from Brundisium a little after the third day before the Nones of June 47 BC (the Perseus dateline: pauli post a. d. iii Non. Iun.) — that is, 3 June, the day after Fam. 14.8, and almost certainly the same day as Att. 11.16. The letter is the pair to a missing earlier note; Cicero writes again the same day, having just had occasion or courier or further news.

Three lines. Terentia is still ill (the fever of the preceding letter has not yet broken). He tells her to focus on getting well; to look ahead and handle whatever the situation and the time require; and to write to him on every subject as often as she can. The brevity is not warmth withheld — it is a man worn down to the executive minimum, asking for instructions to be carried out and for information to keep coming in.