1And yet even before this betrothal, not only, when he was away from the city, did he never send a letter to any of his own people without writing to Atticus what he was doing, and above all what he was reading, and in what places he was going to stay and for how long, but also, when he was in the city and because of his countless occupations enjoyed Atticus' company less often than he wished, scarcely a day passed on which he did not write to him, now asking him something about antiquity, now putting some question about poetry to him, sometimes teasing him to draw out longer letters.
3So it came about that when the temple of Jupiter Feretrius on the Capitol, founded by Romulus, had lost its roof through age and neglect and was falling into ruin, Caesar, at Atticus' prompting, had it rebuilt. 4Nor indeed was he courted any less by letters from Mark Antony when absent, so much so that from the furthest lands Antony made it his careful concern to inform Atticus of what he was doing. 5What this means will be more easily judged by one who is able to assess how great the wisdom is of keeping the intimacy and goodwill of men between whom there existed not only rivalry in the greatest matters but disparagement as great as was inevitable between Caesar and Antony, since each of them desired to be the leading man not only of the city of Rome but of the whole world.