[sect. 3]
Balbo: cf. Ep. XXI.2n.
more Romano: cf. Ep. XXI.3n.
eram afuturus: cf. Intr. 84c.
M. Aemili Philemonis: freedman of M. Lepidus.
devertissem, had put up at.
fremitum clientium meorum: Trebatius was the patron of Ulubrae, a little town near the Pomptine marshes, and on leaving Rome for Caesar's camp had entrusted the interests of the town to Cicero. The latter, upon passing through the district, is saluted by Trebatius's clients the frogs, for the marshes were full of them, as we know also from Hor. Sat. 1.5.I4.