Letter Ad M. Caes. ii. 11

To the most honourable consul, his master, M. Caesar, greeting.

Three years ago I remember turning aside with my father to the estate of Pompeius Falco¹ when on our way home from the vintage; and that I saw there a tree with many branches, which he called by its proper name of catachanna.² But it seemed to me a new and extraordinary tree, bearing as it did upon its single stem off-shoots of almost every kind of tree . . . .³