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si [gap in text] molestum: a polite Colloquial formula; cf. Catul. 55.1 si forte non molestum est; Martial 1.96.1 si non molestum est teque non piget; Plaut. Rud. 120 sed nisi molestumst, paucis percontarier volo ego ex te; Ter. Ad. 806 ausculta paucis, nisi molestumst, Demea; Cic. Cluent. 168. Cf. also Intr. 100.
rescribas: no reply is preserved or mentioned elsewhere. It is quite possible, however, that Lucceius complied with Cicero's request; cf. Att. 4.11.2.
commentarios: perhaps Cicero refers to these notes when he writes to Atticus a year later: tu Lucceio nostrum librum dabis, Att. 4.11.2.
cessabis.: for the tense, cf. Intr. 84 6.
nos diliges: most of Cicero's letters end abruptly, but when a polite formula is used, it is commonly, (1) an admonition concerning the health of the recipient, as in most of the letters to Atticus, e.g. cura ut valeas; (2) an expression of esteem: te valde amamus nosque a te amari cum volumus, tum etiam confidimus (Fam. 7.14); (3) both (1) and (2) cura ut valeas et me, ut amas, ama (Fam. 7.5); bene valeet me dilige; or (4) a reference to the family of the recipient: Piliae et puellae Caeciliae bellissimae salutem dices (Att. 6.4). Cf. also Intr. 62.