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cum Patrone [gap in text] sunt, Patro and I are quite devoted to one another. Patro was at the head of the Epicurean school in Athens. Cicero was an adherent of the Academy, and had little in common with the Epicureans.
de suis commodis et praemiis: possibly fees due him from his students, which Cicero helped him to collect.
meme: the colloquial double form for the acc.; cf. Intr. 87b and the double form tete, Plaut. Epid. 82, Ter. Ad. 33.
Phaedro: the Epicurean Phaedrus was one of Cicero's first teachers in philosophy.
Philonem: until he came to Rome as a fugitive in 88 B.C.
, Philo had been the leader of the New Academy at Athens. His teachings made a deep impression upon Cicero, and determined his philosophical attitude.