[sect. 4]
heus tu: cf. Ep. XXXV.25n.
Dolabella [gap in text] legavit: sc. for his province Syria.
votiva: sc. legatio. The legatio votiva was a legatio libera (cf. legati, Ep. I.2n.) undertaken on the pretext of performing a vow.
quae [gap in text] vovissem, those vows which I had made for the preservation of the commonwealth.
dissolvere : for solvere.
lege Iulia: a law proposed. by Cicero in his consulship and passed limited a legatio libera to one year. Caesar's lex Julia was probably to the same effect; cf. Momm. St. R. 2.691.
introire exire liceat : as legate of Dolabella, Cicero's term of office would continue through Dolabella's proconsulship, i.e. five years, and Cicero would be at liberty to remain in Rome or away from the city as he pleased. On the asyndeton, cf. Intr. 94.
exire: sc. ex urbe as in Ep. L.1. The ellipsis is colloquial.
βλασφημία, ill-omened words.