[sect. 2]
id erat, etc.: for the more common expression qui dies erat, etc., cf. Ep. XV. 5.
eodem tempore simul nobiscum: note the pleonasm; cf. tandem aliquando, below.
Terentia: she came to Brundisium at Cicero's request; cf. Fam. 14.5.1. Two years later, when Cicero returned to Italy after the battle of Pharsalus, he discountenanced Terentia's proposal to meet him at Brundisium; cf. Ep. LIII.