1(5 QUINTUS TO TMARCttS TUtLTOS CICtRO. Sept. »/»• 



To the Edltcr of the Bee. 

 Sir, 



JVIy tranfiations of the Letters to Caplto and Helvi- 

 dius Frifcus have been fo well received by your readers 

 that I meditate the publication of the originals, tOr 

 gcther with the whole of the voliune ia which they 

 are contained. 



Doubts, I find, are entertained of tlieir authenti- 

 city, which will be removed by putting the learned in 

 poflefTion of the manul'cript, by depofiring it in th$ 

 Britifti Mufeum, and printing a cony of it, without 

 deviation from the text. Meantime I fend you a 

 tranflation of an EpilUe from ^dntus to his brother 

 Marcus Cicero, which bears internal evidence of its 

 being one of thofe written from the Camp in Britain, 

 to which Tully refers in his 17. of the 4. b. tc Aticcus, 

 and the 3. Ad. ^nntutn fratrem, 1.57. I am Sir, 

 with regard, 



your humble Servant. 



A. B. 



You are dcfirous, my excellent brother, that IfliouM 

 give you a minute account of the progrel'sof our affairs 

 in this illand, and of my own particular Ctuation ; but 

 Cacfar being now returned to the army in Gaul, and 

 the weight of military, affairs having fallen on my 

 (houldcrs, hardly can I find fufEcient leifure to %vrite; 

 or opportunity to enquire concerning thefc things 

 that might amufe you, as I did heretofore, when, like 

 Trebatius, I confidered myfelf rather as a gueft. and 

 companion, than an affociate in the command and au- 

 thority of the emperor. Indeed fo little cccaficn has 

 there been for civil arrangements in tlie communities 

 that have been brought under the Roman dominion by | 

 Csefar, that Trebatius enjoys his bcoks and his fociii 



