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I shall not be at all sorry for that, if you can conveniently manage it. But if you come to see me, as you say in your letter, I wish you would fish out of Theophanes how "Arabarches" is disposed to me. You will, of course, inquire with your usual zeal, and bring me the result to serve as a kind of suggestion for the line of conduct I am to adopt.
A day or two afterward, writing from the same place, he asks what Arabarches is saying of him. Arabarches is another name for Pompey this Arabian chieftain. In the early summer of this year Cicero returned to Rome, probably in time to see Atticus, who was then about to leave the city for his estates in Epirus.
He lauds the Prætors and the Tribunes, two of the latter members having opposed his return; but he is loudest in praise of Pompey that "Sampsiceramus," that "Hierosolymarius," that "Arabarches" into whose character he had seen so clearly when writing from Macedonia to Atticus that "Cn.
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