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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1900. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... DCCCLXXIX (f Xii, 15) P. LENTULUS, PROQJLESTOR, PROPRIETOR,1 TO THE CONSULS, PR^TORS, TRIBUNES, SENATE, AND ROMAN PEOPLE Perga, 29 May-2 June If you and your children are well, I am glad. I am well. Asia having been overrun by the criminal proceedings of Dolabella, I betook myself to the neighbouring province of Macedonia and to those defences of the Republic which the honourable citizen Marcus Brutus had under his command, and urged that the province of Asia and its revenues should be restored to your authority by those who could do so most promptly. This alarmed Dolabella, and therefore, after plundering the province, seizing its revenues, selecting Roman citizens especially to beggar and sell up, he quitted Asia quicker than the protecting force could be brought into it. I therefore did not think it necessary to delay any longer, nor to wait for the garrison, and I conceived that I ought to return at the earliest opportunity to my duty, in order that I might both collect the arrears of revenue and call in the money I had deposited, and ascertain as soon as possible what part of it had been seized, or by whose fault that had occurred, and inform you about the whole affair. Meanwhile on my voyage by the island route 2 into Asia I 1 The title of proquaestor was explained in a note to the previous letter: that of proprietor arose from the fact that, as there was no regular pratorius or consularis in the province (Trebonius being killed), and as the senate had committed the province to the consuls, Lentulus's position was that of legatus to the consuls, and in that case he exercised pnetorial functions, and his regular designation was legatus pro pratore. A few years later Augustus used this title for all governors of imperial provinces. 2 As opposed to crossing the H...