"Did you think that I did not write because I am angry, or that I did not wish to see you?
I angry with you! But I could not endure to be seen by you.

You would not have seen your brother; not him whom you had left; not him whom you had known; not him whom, weeping as you went away, you had dismissed, weeping himself as he strove to follow you."[283] Then he heaps blame on his own head, bitterly accusing himself because he had brought his brother to such a pass of sorrow.

In this letter he throws great blame upon Hortensius, whom together with Pompey he accuses of betraying him.
What truth there may have been in this accusation as to Hortensius we have no means of saying.

He couples Pompey in the same charge, and as to Pompey's treatment of him there can be no doubt.

Pompey had been untrue to his promises because of his bond with Caesar.