§5.10b.1ego post supplicationes mihi decretas in Dalmatiam profectus sum; sex oppida vi oppugnando cepi; unum hoc, quod erat maximum, quater a me iam captum; quattuor enim turris et quattuor muros cepi et arcem eorum totam; ex qua me nives, frigora, imbres detruserunt, indigneque, mi Cicero, oppidum captum et bellum confectum is relinquere sum coactus.
After the thanksgivings were decreed for me, I set out for Dalmatia; I captured six towns by storming them with force; this single one, which was the largest, has already been captured by me four times; for I captured four towers and four walls, and their entire citadel; from which the snow, cold, and heavy rains drove me down, and undeservedly, my Cicero, I was compelled to leave them the captured town and the finished war.
qua re te rogo, si opus erit, ad Caesarem meam causam agas meque tibi in omnis partis defendendum putes, hoc existimans, neminem te tui amantiorem habere.
Therefore I ask you, if there is need, to plead my cause before Caesar and to think that I must be defended by you in every respect, reflecting on this, that you have no one more loving of you than myself.
vale.
Farewell.
D. N. Decembr. Narona.
Given on the Nones of December, at Narona.