22 surviving letters between Marcus Tullius Cicero and Terentia, spanning 53 BC.
“From many letters and from everyone's conversation I hear that your courage and strength are beyond belief, and that you…”
“Do not think I write longer letters to anyone else, unless someone has written a longer letter to me and I think I ought to answer.”
“I received three letters from Aristocritus, and I nearly washed them out with tears.”
“I write to you less often than I could because, while every moment is miserable for me, when I write to you or read your…”
“If you and Tullia, our light, are well, I and sweetest Cicero are well too.”
“All the troubles and anxieties by which I had made you most wretched, and what distresses me most, our dear little Tulli…”
“If you are well, I am glad; I am well.”
“To my other miseries has been added grief both about Dolabella's health and about Tullia's.”
“I have written to Pomponius about what I think should be done, later than I should have.”
“If you are well, I am glad, and I am well.”
“As for what I wrote to you in my last letter about sending back a messenger, I do not know what that man's power is at t…”
“If you are well, we are well.”
“If you are well, I am glad.”
“I think, my dear souls, that you must consider again and again, very carefully, what you should do: stay at Rome, join me, or go to some safe place.”
“Amid my greatest sorrows I am tormented by the state of our Tullia's health, about which there is no need for me to writ…”
“I think I shall arrive at the Tusculan estate either on the Nones or the day after.”