Marcus Tullius Cicero & Titus Pomponius Atticus

“The state of our candidacy [for the consulship], which I know is of the greatest concern to you, is of this sort, so far…”

“Know that, in the consulship of Lucius Julius Caesar and Gaius Marcius Figulus, I have been blessed with a little son, and that Terentia is well.”

“Know that your grandmother has died from longing for you, and at the same time because she was afraid that the Latins mi…”

“You keep stirring up frequent expectations of your arrival in us.”

“How great a grief I have felt, and of how great a benefit I have been deprived, both in public and in private life, by t…”

“I shall not give you occasion hereafter to be able to accuse me of negligence about letters; only see to it that, in suc…”

“All is well at your mother's house, and she is a care to us.”

“Things at your house are as we wish.”

“Letters are brought to us from you all too rarely, although you both can far more easily find people who are setting out…”

“When I was at my place at Tusculum (this shall serve you in place of your own "When I was in the Ceramicus")—but in any …”

“I was already doing it of my own accord before, and afterward I was greatly moved by two letters of yours written most carefully to the same effect.”

“That Teucris [the woman in the money affair] is truly a slow piece of business, and Cornelius has not since come back to Terentia.”

“I have now received three letters from you: one by the hand of Marcus Cornelius, which you gave him, I think, at Tres Ta…”

“I am afraid it may seem tiresome to write to you about how busy I am, but nevertheless I was so taken up that I have sca…”

“You have heard that Asia has fallen by lot to Quintus [Cicero's brother], my most charming brother.”

“You ask me what happened in the trial, that it turned out so contrary to everyone's expectation, and at the same time yo…”

“A great fluctuation of feeling and a divergence in the opinion and judgment of my brother Quintus has been shown to me b…”

“Know that nothing is now so lacking to me as a man with whom I might share all the things that touch me with any care, o…”

“Not only if I had as much leisure as you have, but even if I were willing to send letters as short as you usually do, I …”

“When I had returned to Rome from my Pompeian estate on the fourth day before the Ides of May, our friend Cincius deliver…”

“On the first of June, as I was setting out for Antium and gladly leaving behind the gladiators of Marcus Metellus, your slave met me.”

“Take care of our Cicero [Marcus's young son], I beg you.”

“First, as I think, the good news.”

“You did me a very great kindness in sending me Serapion's book; though indeed, between ourselves, I scarcely understand one thousandth part of it.”

“I do indeed desire, and have long desired, to visit Alexandria and the rest of Egypt, and at the same time to get away f…”

“As for what I had promised you in my earlier letter, that a work would result from this excursion, I now make no great a…”

“On the geography we shall deliberate again and again.”

“While I was eagerly awaiting a letter from you toward evening, as I usually do, behold, word came to me that the slaves had arrived from Rome!”

“When Caecilius the quaestor suddenly told me that he was sending a slave to Rome, I dashed off these lines in haste, so …”

“I want you to approve of my firmness of purpose.”

“I tell you, I seem to myself an outright exile ever since I have been at my place near Formiae.”

“Do those people deny that Publius has been made a plebeian?”

“An outrageous thing!”

“What expectation you stir up in me about the talk with Bibulus, what expectation about the conversation with the ox-eyed…”

“As you write, so I see that things are no less uncertain in the Republic than in your letter; yet that very diversity of…”

“On the day before the Kalends of May, when I had dined and was already growing drowsy, that letter of yours was delivere…”

“I feel exactly as you write: Sampsiceramus [Cicero's mocking nickname for Pompey] is in turmoil.”

“I have received several letters from you, from which I understood with how anxious and troubled a mind you were eager to know what was new.”

“Many things distress me, both from the great upheaval in the commonwealth and from those dangers that are aimed at me pe…”

“I failed Anicatus in nothing, just as I had understood you wished.”

“As for the state of the republic, why should I describe it to you in detail?”

“How I wish you had stayed in Rome!”

“I think you have never before read a letter of mine that was not written in my own hand.”

“In the letter I gave to Numestius, I summoned you by means of it in such a way that nothing could be done more pressingly or more urgently.”

“Whenever I praise one of your intimate friends to you, I shall want him to learn from you that I did so, as you know I l…”

“Although before this I thought it very much in our interest that you should be with us, yet truly, once I read the bill,…”

“The reason for our journey was that I had no place where I could, by my own right, stay longer than on Sicca's estate, e…”

“Would that I might see the day when I may give you thanks for having forced me to go on living!”

“I should prefer that you attribute to our misery rather than to inconstancy the fact that we suddenly departed from Vibo…”

“Terentia thanks you both often and most warmly.”

“I had no doubt that I would see you at Tarentum or Brundisium, and that was of importance for many reasons, among them b…”

“I came to Brundisium on the fourteenth day before the Kalends of May.”

“Setting out from Brundisium, we had written to you the reasons why we had not set out for Epirus: both because Achaia wa…”

“When my brother Quintus had left Asia before the first of May and reached Athens on the Ides, he had to make great haste…”

“What had been done up to the eighth day before the Kalends of June [25 May] I learned from your letter; the rest I was a…”

“Both your letter, and certain good reports, though from not the most reliable sources, and my expectation of a letter fr…”

“You, for your part, argue diligently what there is to hope for, and especially through the senate, and you write at the …”

“I wrote earlier that I would be in Epirus.”

“Your letter has filled me with expectation about what Pompey wants for me, or at least what he is willing to show.”

“On the Ides of August [August 13] I received four letters sent by you: one in which you reproach me and beg me to be str…”

“My whole route is uncertain while I wait for your letters dated August 1.”

“From June 3 up to August 31, every report I received about my brother Quintus was bad and without variation.”

“You raised no small expectation in me when you wrote that Varro, as a friend, had assured you that Pompey would certainl…”

“As long as the kind of letters you all kept sending me gave me some reason to expect a result from them, I was held at T…”

“That your uncle's name is now yours, and that he has done his duty by you, has my warmest approval.”

“It had been exactly thirty days, when I wrote this letter, during which I had received nothing from you.”

“Although my brother Quintus and Piso have written careful accounts of what has been done, I wish your business had not k…”

“On the 27th of November I received three letters from you.”

“Earlier, when you all wrote to me that the provinces had been equipped by the joint agreement of the consuls, although I…”

“After you left me, letters from Rome were brought to me, and from them I see that I must waste away in this disaster.”

“A letter has reached me from my brother Quintus, together with the Senate decree passed about me.”

“From your letter, and from the facts themselves, I see that I have been utterly ruined.”

“As soon as I reached Rome and there was someone to whom I could safely entrust a letter to you, I thought nothing should…”

“If perhaps letters reach you less often from me than from everyone else, I ask you to attribute it not to any negligence…”

“I know for certain that you are eager both to know what is happening here and to learn it from me in particular - not th…”

“Cincius delighted me by arriving before dawn on January 28.”

“Really, do you think I would rather have anyone but you read and approve my work?”

“Of course I feel about Lentulus as I should.”

“Your letter could not have come at a better moment.”

“There were many delightful things in your letter, but nothing pleased me more than the "plate of salt fish.”

“I would very much like to know whether the tribunes are blocking the census by declaring days invalid, since there is a rumor here to that effect.”

“Puteoli is full of the rumor that Ptolemy has been restored to his throne.”

“I was delighted by the two letters of yours that I received together on April 26.”

“Egnatius is in Rome, but I pressed Halimetus' case with him vigorously at Antium.”

“I see you know that I came to my Tusculan villa on November 14.”

“Our friend Vestorius has informed me by letter that people think you left Rome on May 10, later than you had said, because you had not been well.”

“I am pleased about Eutychides, who, with your old praenomen and your new nomen, will be Titus Caecilius, just as Dionysi…”

“Of how busy I am, this will be proof enough: that this letter is in my secretary's hand.”

“I imagine you suppose that I have now forgotten my habit and settled practice and am writing to you less often than I us…”

“...now, so that you may have a sense of how things stand, we have to put up with it. You ask how I conducted myself. Fir…”

“What a longed-for letter yours was!”

“Yes, I saw how you felt when we parted, and I can answer for my own feelings too.”

“On May 10, as I was sending this letter, I was leaving my Pompeian villa, planning to spend the day with Pontius at his place in Trebula.”

“On May 10 I reached Pontius' villa at Trebula.”

“I reached Beneventum on May 11.”

“I have absolutely nothing to write.”

“I came to Tarentum on May 18.”

“Every day, or rather with each passing day, I send you shorter letters; every day I suspect more strongly that you have already gone to Epirus.”

“An annoying illness, from which I have now recovered since it involved no fever, and my waiting for Pomptinus, of whom n…”

“We reached Actium on June 14, after feasting magnificently at both Corcyra and the Sybota islands, thanks to the gifts t…”

“When I reached Athens on June 25, I waited there for Pomptinus for three days and had no certain news of his arrival.”

“What?”

“Sailing is a great business, especially in July.”

“We reached Ephesus on July 22, the five hundred and sixtieth day after the fight at Bovillae.”

“Until I settle somewhere, you should not expect long letters from me or letters always in my own hand.”

“I reached Laodicea on July 31.”

“Although the tax-farmers' messengers were leaving while I was actually on the road, and we were in motion, I thought I h…”

“I received a bundle of letters from Rome without a letter from you.”

“How I wish you were in Rome, if by chance you are not.”

“I had already sealed the letter you have probably just read, written in my own hand and containing everything, when sudd…”

“On the morning of the Saturnalia [December 17] the people of Pindenissus surrendered to me, on the fifty-seventh day after we began to besiege them.”

“I am very glad that you have arrived safely in Epirus and, as you write, made the crossing to your satisfaction; but I a…”

“I received your letter on the fifth day before the Terminalia at Laodicea.”

“Since your freedman Philogenes had come to Laodicea to pay his respects to me and said he was going to sail off to you a…”

“Although I really had nothing new that had happened since I gave a letter for you to your freedman Philogenes, still, si…”

“I came to Tarsus on June 5.”

“By now you are surely in Rome.”

“While I was honoring Appius in every way in my province, I suddenly became the father-in-law of his prosecutor.”

“Young Quintus, acting with true filial feeling - and certainly with plenty of encouragement from me, though his father's…”

“Just as I had decided to write to you and had taken up my pen, Batonius came straight from the ship to my house at Ephes…”

“When I landed at Piraeus on October 14, I immediately received your letter from my slave Acastus.”

“I did, in fact, give L.”

“I reached Brundisium on the 24th of November, enjoying your proverbial good luck at sea: so charmingly did the gentlest …”

“On the eighth day before the Ides of December [December 6] I arrived at Aeculanum, and there I read your letter, which Philotimus delivered to me.”

“Dionysius was burning to be with you, so I sent him on, though not without some reluctance, by Hercules.”

“Several of your letters reached me all at once.”

“I truly have nothing to write to you.”

“"Dionysius, an excellent man, as I too have found him, very learned and very devoted to you, arrived in Rome on December…”

“Why was there any need to make such emphatic assurances about Dionysius?”

“You ask, "Am I to receive a letter from you every day?”

“I suddenly decided to leave before dawn, so that there would be no spectacle and no gossip, especially with the lictors wearing laurel.”

“Please tell me, what is this?”

“So far I had received one letter from you, dated January 19; it said that you had sent another earlier, which I did not receive.”

“On the Vennonius matter, I agree with you.”

“On January 25, as I was setting out from Cales to Capua, and with my eyes slightly inflamed, I sent this letter.”

“Since I left the city, I have not yet let a single day pass without sending you some sort of letter, not because I had m…”

“I think all your letters have been delivered to me, though the first out of order and the rest in the order they were sent through Terentia.”

“Your letter was welcome and delightful to me.”

“On February 2 our women came to Formiae and brought me the story of your services to them, full of your sweetest devotion.”

“I have nothing to write to you.”

“The times themselves now make me brief.”

“You hear of our troubles before I do, since they spread from your quarter.”

“I see that there is not a foot of ground in Italy that is not in Caesar's power.”

“On the evening of February 9, I received a letter from Philotimus.”

“Philotimus' letter did not greatly delight me, but it delighted those who were in these parts very much.”

“After I had sent you a gloomy letter, and one I fear may be true, about Lucretius' letter sent from Capua to Cassius, Cephalio came from your people.”

“I have not had the experience you write of for yourself: "as often as I rise again.”

“After I had sent you a letter, one from Pompey was delivered to me.”

“Everything you did was welcome to me: you wrote what you had heard, you did not believe reports unworthy of my diligence…”

“Shaken by events of the greatest and most miserable kind, and unable to deliberate with you face to face, I still wanted to use your advice.”

“Dionysius is certainly your man rather than mine.”

“After I sent you the letter about Dionysius before dawn on February 22, Dionysius himself came to me that same evening, …”

“I had already sealed that letter to you, the one I meant to send by night, and in fact did send, since I had written it …”

“One thing still remains to complete our friend's disgrace: that he not come to Domitius' aid.”

“What a shameful thing, and therefore what a miserable one.”

“You write that my letter has become widely circulated.”

“When Dionysius came to me contrary to my expectation, I spoke with him most frankly.”

“You think I am disturbed by a great agitation of mind.”

“My eye trouble was bothering me even more than before.”

“Let my secretary's handwriting be the sign of my eye trouble, and the same trouble the reason for my brevity.”

“I have no doubt that my daily letters are tiresome to you, especially since I neither inform you of anything certain or …”

“On March 3, Aegypta delivered your letters to me.”

“I have made provision for everything except a hidden and safe route to the upper sea.”

“Although I thought that by the time you read this letter I would already know what had happened at Brundisium - Gnaeus l…”

“Although I was expecting a longer letter from you on March 7, the day of your fever attack, as I understand it, I though…”

“What a difficult business, and what a hopeless one.”

“Domitius' son passed through Formiae on March 8, hurrying to his mother at Naples.”

“Although I get rest only while I am writing to you or reading your letters, I myself am short of subjects for letters, a…”

“On your birthday you wrote me a letter full of advice, and full not only of the greatest goodwill but of wisdom too.”

“Still no news from Brundisium.”

“Although I only caught a glimpse of our friend Furnius and could neither speak with him nor hear him out at my convenien…”

“I had written you a letter to send on March 12, but the man I meant to give it to did not set out that day.”

“[1] By Hercules, I am delighted that you indicate in your letter how strongly you approve of what was done at Corfinium.”

“[1] On the day before the Ides, while we were at dinner, and indeed at night, Statius brought me a short letter from you.”

“[1] I received three letters from you on the day after the Ides.”

“[1] It is the habit of most people to judge not only the plans of humble men, such as we are, but even those of the most…”

“[1] If you are well, it is well.”

“[1] I received three of your letters the day after the Ides.”

“Do you know that our friend Lentulus is at Puteoli?”

“When I read your letter, which I had received from our friend Furnius, urging me to be near Rome, I was less surprised t…”

“I had just read your letter of March 20 when a letter from Lepta was brought to me, saying that Pompey had been surround…”

“In my opinion, that story about the rafts is no true report.”

“Caesar has sent me a very short letter; I have copied it below.”

“On March 24 I sent you a copy of Balbus' letter to me and Caesar's letter to him.”

“After I had sent you a letter so that you would know Caesar would be at Capua on March 26, word was brought to me from C…”

“Although I have nothing to write to you, I send this letter so that I do not let a day pass.”

“I was expecting Trebatius on March 27, the day on which I sent this letter.”

“In both respects I followed your advice.”

“Since Rome is denied to us, I gave my son Cicero his toga of manhood at Arpinum rather than anywhere else, and this pleased our fellow townsmen.”

“[1] On the third day before the Nones, when I had come to my brother's estate at Laterium, I received your letter and br…”

“[1] When I had received your letter on the Nones of April [the 5th], the one Cephalio had brought, and was intending to …”

“Since I had absolutely nothing to write about, but there still remained these things I was eager to know—whether he [Cae…”

“On April 7 I dictated this second letter to you on the same day; the day before I had sent a longer one in my own hand.”

“[1] Since I had absolutely nothing to write, but these were the questions still left that I was eager to know — whether …”

“I have already written to you, as carefully as I could, about my whole plan.”

“So far nothing is delaying me except the weather.”

“Yes, I approve of Apulia, Sipontum, and that cautious turning aside of yours, and I do not think your position is the same as mine.”

“The facts themselves advised it, you had pointed it out, and I saw it too: it is time for us to end our correspondence a…”

“"If I did not love you deeply, and much more than you think, I would not have been alarmed by the rumor spread about you…”

“"Although I had decided that you would do nothing rash or imprudent, I have nevertheless been moved by what people are saying.”

“Philotimus' arrival frightened to death everyone who was with me.”

“Your letter terrified me.”

“How blind I was not to see this before.”

“After I had sealed my earlier letter, I decided not to give it to the person I had intended, because he was a stranger.”

“What is going to happen to me?”

“No doubt we must admit we have made a mistake.”

“Your letter was very welcome to my Tullia, and by heaven to me too.”

“What a miserable life, and how much greater the evil of fearing for so long than the very thing one fears.”

“While Servius was with me, Cephalio came on May 10 with your letter, which gave us great hope of better news about the eight cohorts.”

“I had just sent you a letter about several matters when Dionysius came to me very early in the morning.”

“On May 14 Hortensius came to me when my letter had already been written.”

“My Tullia gave birth on May 19 to a boy, a seven-month child.”

“I received the sealed memorandum Anteros brought from you, but it told me nothing about my private affairs.”

“I received your letter on February 4, and that same day I formally accepted the inheritance under the will.”

“You can learn what is happening here from the bearer of your letter.”

“I have received your letter through Isidorus, and two later ones as well.”

“You ask what new move has been made.”

“I cannot bring myself to write, without great agony of mind, what reasons moved me - how bitter, how grave, how unexpect…”

“I see that you are anxious about your own fortunes and those of us all, and especially about me and my griefs.”

“I am very grateful for your letter, in which you carefully recorded everything you think concerns me.”

“Though you certainly see for yourself how many anxieties are consuming me, you will learn more from Lepta and Trebatius.”

“I certainly acted incautiously, as you say, and more hastily than I should have; and I have no hope, since I am tied her…”

“To my incalculable sorrows, a new one has been added by the news brought to me about the two Quinti.”

“Worn out by the torment of my deepest sorrows, I would not find it easy to write to you even if there were something I ought to write.”

“Cephalio delivered a letter from you on the evening of March 8.”

“I have not yet received any letter from Murena's freedman.”

“I am not offended that your letter tells me the truth and does not even try, as you usually do, to console me under the …”

“Since you give good reasons why I cannot see you at present, please consider what I am to do.”

“It is not my fault now, though I did make an earlier mistake, that the letter you send gives me no consolation.”

“I have given this letter to other people's messengers, who are in a hurry.”

“I was thinking of sending my son with Sallustius to Caesar.”

“There is still no rumor that Caesar has left Alexandria.”

“Since I had a chance to give a letter to your people, I did not miss it, although I have nothing to say.”

“On August 14, Gaius Trebonius arrived from Seleucea Pieria after a journey of twenty-eight days.”

“On August 25 I received your letter dated August 19, and when I read it, the sorrow that had long possessed me over Quin…”

“Balbus' letter-carrier delivered the packet very promptly.”

“Camillus has written to me saying that you spoke with him about the subject on which I suggested you consult him.”

“What you wrote to me some time ago, and to Tullia too with the intention that it should be passed on to me, I feel to be true.”

“I readily agree with what you explain at length in your letter: no advice of yours can help me, and certainly no consolation can relieve my grief.”

“On the eleventh day after I had left you, I scratched out this little note as I was leaving my country house before dawn…”

“Still, the rumors here are that Murcus has perished in a shipwreck, that Asinius was carried ashore alive into the soldi…”

“You are, I think, the one person less prone to flattery than myself, and if either of us is ever guilty of it toward som…”

“What a welcome and delightful letter you sent me!”

“Quintus the father, for the fourth time -- or rather the thousandth -- shows not a shred of sense, rejoicing in his son …”

“About Caelius you will make inquiry, as you write; I have nothing new.”

“As for the matter of Caelius, please see to it that there is no shortfall in the gold.”

“I have written everything you want on the writing-tablets and given them to Eros; briefly, but even more than you ask, i…”

“As for the young Cicero [Cicero's son, Marcus], I am pleased on many counts.”

“Indeed I would be glad to be here, and more so every day, were it not for the reason I wrote to you in my last letter.”

“Bad news, by Hercules, about Athamas.”

“Bad news about Seius.”

“Clear up the matter of the dowry all the more thoroughly.”

“Attica distresses me, though I agree with Craterus [her physician].”

“I sent you a letter yesterday about making my excuses to Appuleius.”

“As to my staying with Appuleius, since a permanent arrangement does not suit, you will see to it that I am excused day by day.”

“I do not want you to drop your own affairs and come to me; I will rather come to you, if you are detained any longer.”

“Marcianus has written to me that I have been excused in the eyes of Appuleius [the praetor presiding over a property cas…”

“While I flee from the memories that produce grief by a kind of bite, I take refuge in reminding you of something.”

“Yesterday, when I had learned about Antony's arrival from other people's letters, I was surprised that there was nothing about it in yours.”

“This is indeed a charming spot, set right on the sea, and within view of both Antium and Circeii; but I must work out a …”

“You do not yet seem to grasp how little Antony disturbs me, nor how little anything of that kind could disturb me now.”

“I have read Brutus's letter and am sending it back to you.”

“As for Terentia, in laying the whole burden on me, you fail to recognize your usual kindness toward me.”

“I had thought you had some news, since the opening of your letter ran like this: "although I had no concern for what mig…”

“A.”

“Sicca has written to me carefully about the Silius business, and says that he has reported the matter to you; and you write the same thing yourself.”

“Sicca writes that even if he settles nothing with Aulus Silius, he still intends to come on the tenth before the Kalends.”

“As for the business with Silius, although the terms are not unknown to me, still I expect to learn the whole of it today from Sicca.”

“About Silius I have learned nothing more from Sicca in person than from his letter, for he had written carefully.”

“Silius today, as you write.”

“I am looking for something to write to you, but there is nothing: every day brings the same.”

“Sicca was surprised that Silius had changed his mind.”

“Egnatius has written to me.”

“As I wrote to you yesterday, if Silius turns out to be the man you suppose, and if Drusus shows himself difficult, I sho…”

“I could very easily stay here, even without Sicca [a friend of Cicero's near whose property he was lodging] (for it is b…”

“Before I last left you, it never occurred to me that, for whatever sum is spent on the monument beyond the certain amoun…”

“I want a shrine built, and this cannot be wrested from me.”

“I received two letters from you yesterday, one handed over the day before to Hilarus, the other on the same day by a courier.”

“Hirtius has written to me that Sextus Pompeius has quit Corduba and fled into Nearer Spain, and that Gnaeus has fled I k…”

“I have no doubt you have been extremely busy, since you sent me not a line; but the fellow is a worthless rascal not to …”

“As for your thinking that the firmness of my mind ought now to be made plain, and your writing that certain people are s…”

“When the courier came to me without a letter from you, I supposed that your reason for not writing was that the day befo…”

“I have seen what sort of attack Caesar's denunciation will be against my eulogy, from the book that Hirtius sent me; in …”

“There was nothing for me to write.”

“I have not missed getting a letter from you on any single day; for I could see what you keep writing, and yet I suspecte…”

“It had occurred to me to urge you to do the very thing you are doing.”

“I am quite content that Hirtius wrote something to you sympathetically [sympathôs] about me (for he behaved decently), a…”

“Excellent news about Attica.”

“I shall master my feelings, I think, and go on from Lanuvium to my place at Tusculum.”

“As for Mustela's property [an estate Cicero was considering buying for his projected shrine to his daughter Tullia], it …”

“Circulate Hirtius's book, just as you are doing.”

“I was already fully aware how much good your being here did me, but I feel it much more now, after your departure.”

“Just as your arrival had buoyed me up, so your departure has laid me low.”

“Tiro has arrived sooner than I feared.”

“You know Lucius Tullius Montanus, who set out with Cicero [the writer's son, then studying in Athens].”

“Although I have nothing to write to you about, I write all the same, because I feel as though I am talking with you.”

“You wrote to my son [the younger Marcus] in a way that could not have been written either more sternly or more temperate…”

“You will give orders for the letters to be delivered to Oppius and Balbus, and also to Piso, wherever he may be, about the gold.”

“Tomorrow, then, is Peducaeus' auction.”

“As for those debts [nomina = outstanding loans/credits, the financial assets in question], I approve of them so thorough…”

“I have from you the carefully worked-up gift of the ten commissioners [the senatorial board of ten legates appointed to …”

“I had supposed that Spurius Mummius was among the ten commissioners, but evidently [.”

“You did the right thing about the aqueduct.”

“That Tuditanus, the great-grandfather of Hortensius, I really did not know, and I had supposed that it was the son who s…”

“Sestius was with me, and Theopompus the day before.”

“Brutus arrived at the Tusculan villa [Cicero's estate near Tusculum] yesterday after the tenth hour.”

“There was simply nothing for me to write to you about, since you had only just left and a little while later had sent ba…”

“You had only just left yesterday when Trebatius arrived, and a little later Curtius came to pay his respects, but he stayed on at my invitation.”

“I am not in the least surprised that you take the matter of Marcellus hard and dread many kinds of danger.”

“"Ou tauton eidos" [Greek: "It is not the same sight," a verse quotation contrasting seeing a thing for oneself with merely hearing of it].”

“Your letters about our dear Attica bit me hard; yet those same letters healed me.”

“Stirred by your letter, by what you had written to me about Varro, I have taken the whole Academica away from those most…”

“I should like you to consider, again and again, whether it suits you that what we have written be sent to Varro.”

“Since we were keeping to the rivers and to solitude, so that we might more easily keep ourselves going, we have not yet …”

“The 28th.”

“Hilarus the copyist had just left on the fourth day before the Kalends, with the letter I had given him for you, when th…”

“I have received a letter of consolation from Caesar, dated the day before the Kalends of May at Hispalis [Seville].”

“I have given Hirtius a really long letter, the one I wrote recently at my place in Tusculum.”

“Tell me: do you really think it acceptable to publish in the first place without my authorization?”

“About Varro, it is not without reason that I am inquiring so carefully what you would prefer.”

“I wrote back at once yesterday to your morning letter; now I am replying to your evening one.”

“What is this that Clodius Hermogenes tells me Andromenes said to him, that he had seen Cicero [Cicero's son, then studying abroad] at Corcyra?”

“About Andromenes I had thought it was as you write.”

“About the matter of Vergilius's share, I strongly approve.”

“As for the letter to Caesar, I was always entirely satisfied that those men should read it first.”

“Since you were going to inspect the gardens today, you will of course tell me tomorrow what your impression was.”

“About the gardens I have learned from your letter and from Chrysippus.”

“I had just sent Demeas off to you when Eros arrived at my door.”

“On the morning of the fifth day before the Kalends I received a letter from Demea, sent the day before, from which I gat…”

“Since I received a second letter from you today, I did not want you to make do with just one of mine.”

“What extraordinary carelessness!”

“We were talking about Varro: speak of the devil [lupus in fabula, literally "the wolf in the story"].”

“I arrived at Astura on the eighth day before the Kalends [i.”

“What a scandal!”

“This is the second letter I am sending you today.”

“Before dawn, while I was writing against the Epicureans, I scratched out something or other to you by the same lamp and …”

“What incredible duplicity!”

“Is that so?”

“As for me, I did send Quintus a letter to give to his sister [Pomponia, Quintus's wife and Atticus's sister].”

“He came to me kai mala katephes ["and quite downcast"].”

“I shall indeed take advantage of the postponement of the day, and it was most kind of you to let me know - and to do so …”

“What a delightful letter of yours!”

“Lamia was with me after you left, and he brought me a letter that had been sent to him by Caesar.”

“Pollex did indeed turn up to me at Lanuvium on the day before the Ides, just as he had said he would by the Ides of Augu…”

“"After the news from you, Agamemnon" - not "that I should come" (for I would have done that too, had Torquatus not been …”

“Lepidus sent me a letter yesterday evening from Antium, for he was there.”

“Yesterday, amid the din, I think I caught you saying that you would come to my Tusculan villa.”

“First, my greetings to Attica (who I imagine is out in the country, so a hearty greeting to her) and to Pilia.”

“Prompted by certain of your letters to set about sending fuller letters to Caesar, and since Balbus told me recently at …”

“As for the letter I sent to Caesar, it escaped me at the time to send you a copy of it.”

“What a guest to have had on my hands!”

“I stopped to visit the man we were discussing this morning.”

“I received two letters from you yesterday.”

“Your letter is certainly peaceful.”

“Do you suppose I hear anything at Lanuvium?”

“I hope you are now as well as I want you to be, since you fasted when you were slightly upset; still, I would like to know how you are.”

“I received your letter at Fundi over dinner on April 12.”

“On the day after the Ides I saw Paulus at Caieta.”

“When you wrote, you already thought I was at one of my seaside places; I received your letter on April 15 in my little lodging at Sinuessa.”

“I learned a great deal about the republic from your letters, which arrived all at once in a whole bundle through Vestorius' freedman.”

“Is this really what it comes to?”

“Two days ago I sent you a longer letter; now I answer your latest points.”

“My dear Atticus, I fear the Ides of March have given us nothing except joy, and punishment for hatred and pain.”

“Only after seven days did I receive the letter you sent on April 19.”

“My many engagements and your sudden departure kept me from speaking with you in person about this matter.”

“There is only one reason I wish you had made this request in person instead of by letter.”

“"Repeat that same tale to me.”

“What a splendid Dolabella I have.”

“I am sending this letter on May 3 as I board a small lookout boat from Cluvius' gardens, after handing over the villa at…”

“I reached Pompeii on May 3, after settling Pilia at my place in Cumae the day before, as I wrote to you earlier.”

“Although I was already satisfied with your glory, my dear Dolabella, and drew great joy and pleasure from it, I cannot h…”

“You have been prodding me more than once now because I seem to praise Dolabella's deed to the skies too extravagantly.”

“When I was at Pompeii on May 7, I received two letters from you, one six days old and the other four.”

“I came by sea from Pompeii to the hospitality of our Lucullus on May 10, about the third hour.”

“A little before this I had given Cassius' messenger a letter for you.”

“When Pilia told me that messengers were being sent to you on the Ides, I immediately scratched out this little something.”

“What a wretched business about Alexio!”

“Yesterday I sent you a letter as I was leaving my place near Puteoli and stopping at Cumae.”

“On the 18th, as I was leaving Sinuessa, I sent you a letter and then stopped at Vescia.”

“On the 22nd I received two letters from you at Arpinum, each answering one of mine.”

“On the 24th, at about four o'clock, a messenger came from Quintus Fufius bringing some little note or other from him, as…”

“How I wish you could have given Brutus your help.”

“My messenger has returned from Brutus, bringing a letter from him and one from Cassius too.”

“Our friends Brutus and Cassius had written asking me to use my influence to strengthen Hirtius' loyalty to the republic.”

“Thank you for sending the letters.”

“After you left, two letters came from Balbus with no news in them, and one from Hirtius, who says he is very annoyed with the veterans.”

“On the evening of the 2nd I received a letter from Balbus saying that there would be a meeting of the Senate on the 5th …”

“What an affectionate letter from Brutus, and what unfair timing that you cannot go to him.”

“I reached Antium on the 8th.”

“That is excellent news about Buthrotum.”

“On the 25th I received two letters from you, and I will answer the earlier first.”

“On the 26th I received a letter from Dolabella, and I am sending you a copy.”

“A curse on Lucius Antonius if he is making trouble for the Buthrotians.”

“At last, a messenger from my son, and by heaven, a letter written in first-rate style.”

“I tell you, this place is lovely, and certainly secluded and free from onlookers if one wants to write.”

“I received two letters on the 14th, one dated that same day and one dated the day before.”

“Although I think I told you plainly enough in my letter of the 15th what I needed and what I wished you to do, if conven…”

“What more can we possibly do about Buthrotum?”

“I have thanked Vettienus; nothing could have been kinder.”

“I must tell you, my brother Quintus is leaping for joy.”

“Young Quintus' departure is a blessing for us; he will not be a nuisance.”

“I am wonderfully tormented, though without physical pain.”

“The messenger I sent to Brutus returned yesterday.”

“Opinions differ about my journey, since I have had many visitors.”

“I see you have done everything you could in Quintus' business.”

“I am glad you advise me to do what I had already done of my own accord yesterday.”

“As I told you in yesterday's letter, I have arranged to be at Puteoli on the 7th.”

“I am sending you Brutus' letter.”

“On the Nones of Quintilis [July 7] I arrived at my place at Puteoli.”

“On the sixth day before the Ides I received two letters, one from my own courier, the other from Brutus's.”

“You have acted wisely (for only now am I replying to the letter you sent me after your meeting with Antony at Tibur)—wis…”

“As I told you yesterday, or perhaps it was today (for Quintus said he would take a second day over it), on the 8th to the Idues I went to Nesis.”

“Brutus was already waiting for a letter from you.”

“So far (for I have reached Sicca's place at Vibo) my voyage has been comfortable rather than swift; we went largely by o…”

“On the sixth of August, when I had set out from Leucopetra (for that was where I was making my crossing) and had advance…”

“When I know what day I'll be arriving, I'll make sure you know.”

“Two letters in a single day from Octavian, urging me now to come to Rome at once; he says he wants to push the matter through the Senate.”

“On the seventh before the Ides I arrived at my place near Sinuessa.”

“On the Nones I received two letters from you, one of which you had posted on the Kalends, the other the day before.”

“I have sent you a copy of Oppius' letter, because it was extremely gracious.”

“What an extraordinary coincidence!”

“I am eagerly awaiting your advice.”

“There was plainly nothing for me to write about.”

“Do not suppose that it is out of laziness that I am not writing in my own hand; but, by Hercules, it is laziness.”

“I have read your most delightful letter.”

“I have come to know that you are very devoted to our friend Atticus, and indeed so attached to me that, by Hercules, I r…”

“I already asked you earlier, by letter, that, since the case of the people of Buthrotum [a town in Epirus whose territor…”

“I never thought it would come about that I should approach you as a suppliant; but, by Hercules, I gladly accept the cir…”

“I had the highest regard for your father, and he for his part respected and loved me wonderfully; nor, by Hercules, was …”

“Forgive me, since I have written to you most carefully about the Buthrotians before, for writing to you on the same matter so repeatedly.”

“I have no doubt that you are surprised, and even annoyed, that I take up the same matter with you so often.”