Letter coll=F:book=14:letter=8 Letter LVI: ad familiares 14.8
Brundisium, June 2, 47 B.C.
si vales, bene est. ego valeo: Cicero never uses this formula in writing to Quintus, Atticus, or Tiro, nor in his early letters to Terentia, viz. Fam. 14.2 (Ep. XIII.), 3 and 4 (Ep. XI), and in general he employs it only in formal letters. Its use here is therefore an indication of the coolness which had sprung up between him and his wife; cf. Intr. 52.
facies: cf. Intr. 84b.