§13.64.1Nero meus mirificas apud me tibi gratias egit, prorsus incredibilis, ut nullum honorem sibi haberi potuisse diceret qui a te praetermissus esset.
My dear Nero expressed wonderful gratitude to you in my presence, indeed unbelievable, so that he said no honor could have been paid to him which was passed over by you.
Magnum fructum ex ipso capies; nihil est enim illo adulescente gratius; sed me hercule mihi quoque gratissimum fecisti; pluris enim ex omni nobilitate neminem facio.
You will reap great fruit from him; for nothing is more grateful than that young man; but by Hercules, you have done what is most pleasing to me as well; for I value no one from the entire nobility more highly.
itaque si ea feceris quae ille per me tecum agi voluit, gratissimum mihi feceris, primum de Pausania Alabandensi sustentes rem, dum Nero veniat (vehementer eius causa cupere eum intellexi; itaque hoc valde te rogo); deinde Nysaeos, quos Nero in primis habet necessarios diligentissimeque tuetur ac defendit, habeas tibi commendatissimos, ut intellegat illa civitas sibi in Neronis patrocinio summum esse praesidium.
Therefore, if you do those things which he wished to be transacted with you through me, you will do what is most pleasing to me: first, that you stay the matter concerning Pausanias of Alabanda until Nero arrives (I understood that he earnestly desires it for his sake; therefore I strongly ask this of you); second, that you hold the people of Nysa, whom Nero regards as especially close friends and most diligently protects and defends, as highly recommended to you, so that that state may understand that its greatest protection lies in the patronage of Nero.
Strabonem Servilium tibi saepe commendavi; nunc eo facio id impensius, quod eius causam Nero suscepit.
I have often recommended Strabo Servilius to you; now I do so all the more eagerly because Nero has taken up his cause.
tantum a te petimus ut agas eam rem ne relinquas hominem innocentem ad alicuius tui dissimilis quaestum.
We only ask of you that you conduct the matter in such a way as not to abandon an innocent man to the gain of someone unlike yourself.
id cum gratum mihi erit tum etiam existimabo te humanitate tua esse usum.
This will not only be pleasing to me, but I shall also consider that you have exercised your natural humanity.
§13.64.2summa huius epistulae haec est, ut ornes omnibus rebus Neronem, sicuti instituisti atque fecisti.
The substance of this letter is this: that you honor Nero in every way, just as you have begun and done.
Magnum theatrum habet ista provincia, non ut haec nostra, ad adulescentis nobilis, ingeniosi, abstinentis commendationem atque gloriam.
That province of yours has a great theater, not like this of ours, for the recommendation and glory of a noble, talented, and self-restrained young man.
qua re si te fautore usus erit, sicuti profecto et utetur et usus est, amplissimas clientelas acceptas a maioribus confirmare poterit et beneficiis suis obligare.
Therefore, if he enjoys your favor, as indeed he will and has done, he will be able to confirm the very extensive clients received from his ancestors and bind them by his favors.
hoc in genere si eum adiuveris eo studio quo ostendisti, apud ipsum praeclarissime posueris sed mihi etiam gratissimum feceris.
If you assist him in this class of things with the zeal you have shown, you will have placed an outstanding obligation with him, but you will also have done what is most pleasing to me.