the morning, noon
It is this : that for a long time I have been engaged in taking possession of my new dwelling upon the Coelian , not far from that of Portia . Of this you may have heard , in the letters which have reached you ; but that will not prevent me from describing to you , with more exactness than any other can have done it , the home of your old and fast friend , Lucius Manlius Piso ; for I think it adds greatly to the pleasure with which we think of an absent friend , to be able to see , as in a picture , the form and material and position of the house he inhabits , and even the very aspect and furniture of the room in which he is accustomed to pass the most of his time . This to me is a satisfaction greater than you can well conceive , when , in my ruminating hours , which are many , I return to Palmyra , and place myself in the circle with Gracchus , Calpurnius , and yourself . Your palace having now been restored to its former condition , I know where to find you at the morning , noon , and evening hour ; the only change you have made in the former arrangements being this : that whereas when I was your guest , your private apartments occupied the eastern wing of the palace , they are now in the western , once mine , which I used then to maintain were the most agreeable and noble of all . The prospects which its windows afford of the temple , and the distant palace of the queen , and of the evening glories of the setting sun , are more than enough to establish its claims to an undoubted superiority ; and if to these be added the circumstance , that for so long a time the Roman Piso was their occupant , the case is made out beyond all peradventure . But I am describing your palace rather than my own . You must remember my paternal seat on the southern declivity of the hill , overlooking the course of the Tiber as it winds away to the sea .