[sect. 2]
M. Varisidius: a Roman knight, who came from the camp of Plancus; cf. Fam. 10.7.1.
Munatius noster: T. Munatius Plancus, a relative of the person addressed. Cf. 5.
ego ei litteras tuas: sc. legendas dedi.
nihildum: the enclitic dum is appended in comedy frequently to imperatives and interjections, and occasionally to enumerative words like primum. Cf. Brix on Plaut. Trin. 98, and Lorenz on Most. 120. In prose it is found elsewhere only in the combinations nondum, vixdum, interdum, etiamdum, agedum, and agitedum.
eas quas publice: the letter to the senate, Fam. 10.8.