[sect. 5]
heus tu: cf. Ep. XXXV. 25n.
celari, to be kept in the dark.
de nostris versibus: Cicero's poem, de Temporibus Meis. Cf. also Fam. 1.9.23; Q. fr. 3.1.24.
ῥᾳθυμότερα: a trifle careless.
hoc [gap in text] verbo: the word ῥαθυμότερα had not been used by Caesar, but Cicero believes that it expresses Caesar's opinion of the latter part of the poem.
ne pilo quidem minus, not a whit the less. Cf. the similar proverbial expressions, nec . . flocci facio, Att. 13.50.3; non nauci facio, Plaut. Bacch. 1102.