47.] Among his epistles of the year there is one which might of itself have sufficed to bring down his name to posterity.

This is a long letter, full of advice, to his brother Quintus, who had gone out in the previous year to govern the province of Asia as Propraetor.

We may say that good advice could never have been more wanted, and that better advice could not have been given.

It has been suggested that it was written as a companion to that treatise on the duties of a candidate which Quintus composed for his brother's service when standing for his Consulship.

But I cannot admit the analogy.