[sect. 3]
mi Pomponi: cf. Ep. X. n.
scribe ad me omnia: a request to be found in almost every letter of this period. Cicero puts more Confidence in the letters of Atticus than in those of his brother Quintus; cf. Att. 3.18.2 Q. frater, homo mirus, qui me tam valde amat, omnia mittit spei plena, metuens, credo, dcfectionem animi mei; tuae autem lillerae sunt variae, neque enim me desperare vis nec temere sperare.