But this sat lightly on Cicero's heart.

Pecuniary losses never weighed heavily with him.
As he journeyed back from Vibo to Brundisium friends were very kind to him, in spite of the law.

Toward the end of the speech which he made five years afterward on behalf of his friend C.Plancius he explains the debt of gratitude which he owed to his client, whose kindness to him in his exile had been very great.

He commences his story of the goodness of Plancius by describing the generosity of the towns on the road to Brundisium, and the hospitality of his friend Flavius, who had received him at his house in the neighborhood of that town, and had placed him safely on board a ship when at last he resolved to cross over to Dyrrachium.

There were many schemes running in his head at this time.