§13.68.1gratae mihi vehementer tuae litterae fuerunt, ex quibus cognovi cursus navigationum tuarum significabas enim memoriam tuam nostrae necessitudinis, qua mihi nihil poterat esse iucundius.
Your letter was exceedingly welcome to me, from which I learned the course of your voyages; for you showed that you hold the memory of our intimacy, than which nothing could be more pleasing to me.
quod reliquum est, multo etiam erit gratius, si ad me de re p. , id est de statu provinciae, -de institutis tuis familiariter scribes.
For the rest, it will be even much more agreeable if you write to me familiarly about public affairs, that is, about the state of the province and your ordinances.
quae quamquam ex multis pro tua claritate audiam, tamen libentissime ex tuis litteris cognoscam.
Although I shall hear of these things from many people because of your high reputation, yet I shall be most glad to learn them from your own letters.
§13.68.2ego ad te de re p. summa quid sentiam non saepe scribam propter periculum eius modi litterarum; quid agatur autem scribam saepius.
I shall not often write to you what I think about the state of the commonwealth as a whole, because of the danger of that kind of letter; but I will write more frequently about what is being done.
sperare tamen videor Caesari, conlegae nostro, fore curae et esse ut habeamus aliquam rem p. cuius consiliis magni referebat te interesse sed si tibi utilius est, id est gloriosius, Asiae praeesse et istam partem rei p. male adfectam tueri, mihi quoque idem quod tibi et laudi tuae profuturum est optatius debet esse.
Yet I seem to hope that it is and will be a matter of care to Caesar, our colleague, that we should have some form of commonwealth, in whose counsels it was of great importance that you should take part. But if it is more advantageous for you, that is, more glorious, to govern Asia and protect that part of the commonwealth which is in a bad state, the same thing which is to benefit you and your reputation ought also to be more desirable to me.
§13.68.3ego quae ad tuam dignitatem pertinere arbitrabor summo studio diligentiaque curabo in primisque tuebor omni observantia clarissimum virum, patrem tuum, quod et pro vetustate necessitudinis et pro beneficiis vestris et pro dignitate ipsius facere debeo.
I shall attend with the greatest zeal and diligence to what I think pertains to your dignity, and in particular, I shall support with all respect that most illustrious man, your father, as I ought to do both in view of our long-standing intimacy, your family's services to me, and his own dignity.