Proconsul Mamercus Corvinus had arrived Pergamon a week ago and had great difficulties to sustain law and order in the city. Local people didn’t respect his authority at all and even his staff seemed to be wispering around and plotting something. Luckily he had understood to leave his family to stay in Athens. But lately the situation near Greece was also getting alarming and Corvinus decided to write a letter to appeal the common sense of Favonius and Paullus. It was the only thing he could do in order to prevent the civil war.


”Salve Favonius Cornelius Pola and cousin Paullus Fabius Maximus,

I’m not a man of sophisticated words. But I know a bit about Roman history. It’s full of most glorious wars against many enemies, Sabines, Carthage, Pyrrhus, Macedonia and so on. But the civil war, Romans fighting with Romans – there is no glory in it. There are many who only wait for our first moment of weakness. What about Parthia? Or Gauls? Or Italian tribes? Or rebellious slaves as was Spartacus? It’s not yet too late to reconciliate. There must exist some honourable way to stop this madness. Please, I appeal to you both in all sincerity, prevent the impending civil war.


Mamercus Valerius Corvinus Aemelianus, proconsul of Asia.”