Marcus Tullius Cicero & Titus Pomponius Atticus

“The state of my candidacy, which I know is of the greatest concern to you, is as follows, so far as can be foreseen by conjecture at this point.”

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

“You should know that your grandmother has died from missing you, and also because she feared that the Latin tribes would…”

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

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

“I shall not hereafter give you occasion to accuse me of negligence in letter-writing; only see to it that, with all your…”

“Things are well with your mother, and she is in our care.”

“Things are as we wish at your end.”

“Letters from you reach us far too rarely, since you can find people setting out for Rome much more easily than I can fin…”

“When I was at my Tusculan estate (let this stand as my answer to your "When I was in the Ceramicus")—but in any case, wh…”

“I was already doing so of my own accord, and after two letters from you written most carefully to the same purpose, I was greatly moved.”

“That Teucris woman is a truly slow affair, and Cornelius has not returned to Terentia since.”

“I have now received three letters from you: one from Marcus Cornelius, to whom you gave it at Three Taverns, I believe; …”

“I fear it may be tedious for you to read how busy I am, but nevertheless I am so pulled in every direction that I have s…”

“You have heard that Asia has fallen by lot to my delightful brother Quintus.”

“You ask me what happened with the trial, since the outcome was so contrary to everyone's expectation, and at the same ti…”

“The great changeableness of my brother Quintus's disposition and the inconsistency of his opinion and judgment have been…”

“Let me know that nothing is so lacking to me now as a person with whom I might share all the things that cause me any co…”

“Even if I had as much leisure as you do, or even if I wished to send letters as brief as you usually do, I could easily …”

“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 1st of June, as I was heading to Antium and eagerly leaving behind Marcus Metellus's gladiatorial show, your boy met me on the road.”

“Take care, I beg you, of our dear Cicero.”

“First, some good news, I think.”

“You did me a great favor by sending Serapion's book, from which indeed — if I may say so between ourselves — I scarcely understand a thousandth part.”

“I am eager indeed, and have long been eager, to visit Alexandria and the rest of Egypt, and at the same time to withdraw…”

“As for what I promised you in my earlier letter — that some work would come out of this sojourn abroad — I no longer strongly affirm it.”

“Regarding the geography, I shall deliberate again and again.”

“When I was eagerly awaiting a letter from you toward evening, as is my habit, suddenly a message that slaves had arrived from Rome!”

“Since Caecilius the quaestor suddenly told me he was sending a slave to Rome, I have written this in haste, so as to dra…”

“I want you to appreciate my consistency.”

“I tell you, I feel positively exiled since I have been at Formiae.”

“So they deny that Publius has been made a plebeian?”

“What a disgrace!”

“What great expectation you stir in me about your conversation with Bibulus, what great expectation about your talk with …”

“As you write, so I see: matters in the republic are no less uncertain than in your letter.”

“Your letter about the Campanian land was delivered to me on the evening before the Kalends of May, after I had dined and was already falling asleep.”

“I agree entirely with your view of the situation.”

“I have received several of your letters, from which I understood how anxiously and worriedly you desired to know what was new.”

“Many things trouble me, both from the great upheaval in public affairs and from the dangers that are aimed at me persona…”

“I have not failed Anicatus in any matter, as I understood you wished.”

“What shall I write you in detail about the republic?”

“How I wish you had stayed in Rome!”

“I don't think you have ever before read a letter of mine not written in my own hand.”

“In the letter I gave to Numestius, I summoned you with such urgency that nothing sharper or more pressing could be managed.”

“When I have praised any of your friends in writing to you, I want him to know from you that I did so, just as you know I…”

“Although I had previously thought it was very much in our interest for you to be with me, now indeed, upon reading the p…”

“The reason for my journey was that I had no place where I could remain by my own right for any length of time except on …”

“Would that I might see the day when I shall thank you for having compelled me to live!”

“You would do better to attribute our sudden departure from Vibo, where we had summoned you, to our misery rather than to our inconstancy.”

“Terentia gives you thanks both often and most abundantly.”

“I had not doubted that I would see you at Tarentum or Brundisium, and this mattered for many things, among them that we …”

“I arrived at Brundisium on the fourteenth day before the Kalends of May.”

“Setting out from Brundisium, I had written to you explaining why we had not proceeded to Epirus — both because Achaia wa…”

“My brother Quintus, having departed from Asia before the Kalends of May and arrived at Athens on the Ides, was under gre…”

“I have learned from your letter what has happened up to the 25th of May; the rest I am awaiting at Thessalonica, as you advised.”

“Both your letter and certain good reports — though not from the most reliable sources — along with my anticipation of fu…”

“You indeed argue diligently about what may be hoped for, especially through the Senate, and yet you write that the headi…”

“I changed my mind about the proposed journey to Epirus when I saw my hope growing less and less and finally vanishing, a…”

“Your letter has filled me with hopes of Pompey’s intentions or professed intentions as regards me.”

“On August 13 I received four letters from you,—one in terms of reproof, urging me to firmness, another telling me of Cra…”

“I am waiting for your letters of the first of August before I can decide at all where I shall go.”

“All the news I have had about my brother Quintus from June the 3rd to the end of August has been bad news without exception.”

“You raised my hopes considerably by writing that Varro had assured you as a friend that Pompey was going to take up my c…”

“So long as your letters afforded me any ground for it, my hopes and my longings kept me at Thessalonica: but, as soon as…”

“I strongly approve that this is indeed the case and that your uncle has fulfilled his duty most vigorously.”

“It is just thirty days from the date of this letter since I had any news from you.”

“[Sidenote: _Partly at Thessalonica, partly at Dyrrachium, Nov.”

“On the 26th of November I received three letters from you.”

“When you wrote to me some time ago that the estimates for the consular provinces were passed with your consent, I hoped …”

“After your departure from me I received a letter from Rome, from which I can see that I shall have to waste away in my present misery.”

“A letter from my brother Quintus has come, containing the decree which the Senate passed about me.”

“Your letter shows me that I am ruined beyond redemption; the facts speak for themselves.”

“As soon as I reached Rome and there was anyone to whom I could safely entrust a letter to you, my first thought was to w…”

“If I am a less regular correspondent than others, please do not lay it to my carelessness or to my business either; for,…”

“I am sure you are wanting to know what is going on here and to know it from me too, not that there is any more certainty…”

“I was charmed by Cincius’ visit on the 28th of Rome.”

“Come now, do you really imagine I prefer my things to be read and criticized by anyone but you?”

“The news about Lentulus I feel of course as I ought: we have lost a good man and a fine fellow, and one who combined a r…”

“Nothing could be more à propos than your letter, which has relieved me about the dear child Quintus very greatly.”

“Your letter contained many delightful passages, but nothing to beat the “plate of red herrings.”

“I should much like to know whether the tribunes are hindering the census by declaring days void—for there is a rumour to…”

“Puteoli is full of the report that Ptolemy is restored.”

“I was delighted with your two letters which I received together on the 26th.”

“Egnatius is at Rome: but I pleaded Halimetus’ cause strongly with him at Antium.”

“I see you know of my arrival at my Tusculum villa on the 14th of November.”

“Our friend Vestorius has informed me by letter that you are believed to have left Rome on the 10th of May, later than yo…”

“I am glad to hear about Eutychides.”

“The bare fact that my letter is by the hand of an amanuensis will show you how busy I am.”

“I suppose you think that I have now forgotten my habit and custom of writing to you less frequently than I used to; but …”

“... So now, to give you my opinion on affairs, we have got to put up with them. You want to know how I behaved. With fir…”

“What a welcome letter!”

“Yes, I did see your feelings when we parted, and to my own I can testify.”

“On the 10th of May, the date of this letter, I set out from my villa at Pompeii, to spend the day with Pontius in his villa at Trebula.”

“On the 10th of May I came to Pontius’ villa at Trebula.”

“I reached Beneventum on the 11th of May.”

“I have absolutely nothing to write about.”

“I came to Tarentum on the 18th of May.”

“Daily, or rather more and more every day, I send you shorter letters: for daily I suspect more than ever that you have started for Epirus.”

“Tiresome indisposition, from which I have recovered, as there was no fever with my ailment, and also my awaiting Pomptin…”

“I reached Actium on the 14th of June, after feasting like an alderman both at Corcyra and the Sybota islands, thanks to …”

“I came to Athens on the 25th of June, and I have waited three days for Pomptinus, but have heard nothing certain of his coming.”

“What, write so often to Rome, and never a line to you!”

“A sea voyage is a big business, especially in the month of July.”

“I reached Ephesus on the 22nd of July, the five hundred and sixtieth day after the battle of Bovillae.”

“You must not expect long letters from me nor always letters in my own handwriting, till I have settled down somewhere.”

“I reached Laodicea on the 31st of July.”

“[Sidenote: _On the road from Synnada to Philomelium, between Aug.”

“I got a bundle of letters from Rome without one from you.”

“If you don’t happen to be in town, I wish to goodness you were.”

“I had already sealed the letter, which I fancy you must have just read, written in my own handwriting and containing a f…”

“On the morning of the 17th of December the Pindenissitae surrendered to me, on the fifty-seventh day from the commencement of my siege.”

“I am very glad that you have reached Epirus safely, and that you report a voyage to your liking.”

“I got your letter on the 5th day before the Terminalia at Laodicea.”

“Your freedman Philogenes has come to visit me at Laodicea and tells me that he is on the point of sailing to join you: s…”

“Though I have no fresh news, since I handed a letter for you to your freedman Philogenes, still I must write you a line,…”

“I came to Tarsus on the 5th of June.”

“You must certainly be at Rome now.”

“While in my province I show Appius every honour, suddenly I find myself father-in-law of Dolabella his accuser.”

“The boy Quintus has contrived to reconcile his father to your sister.”

“Just as I had determined to write to you and had taken up my pen, Batonius came straight from his ship to my house at Ep…”

“When I disembarked at the Piraeus on the day before the Ides of October, I received your letter at once from my slave Acastus.”

“I did give L.”

“I arrived at Brundisium on the 24th of November after enjoying your proverbial luck at sea: so fair for me "blew from Ep…”

“On the 6th of December I came to Aeculanum, and there I read your letter, which Philotimus handed to me.”

“Dionysius burned to be with you, so I sent him, with some misgivings I must admit; but it had to be.”

“A number of your letters have reached me at the same time: and, although visitors bring me later news, they are delightf…”

“I have positively no news: all mine is known to you; and there is none that I can look for from you.”

“"Dionysius, an excellent fellow--as I too have found him--a good scholar and your very stanch friend, arrived in Rome on…”

“There was no need for you to give such strong assurances about Dionysius.”

“You ask if you are going to get a letter from me every day.”

“I have suddenly determined to leave town before daybreak, so that I may escape sightseers and gossips, especially with my bay-decked lictors.”

“What in the name of wonder is this?”

“So far I have received one letter from you dated the 19th.”

“In the matter of Vennonius I agree with you.”

“On the 25th of January, setting out from Cales to Capua, I write this letter, though still suffering from slight inflammation of the eyes.”

“Since I left Rome I have not yet let a day pass without dropping you a line; not that I had any magno opere, quod scrib…”

“I think all your letters reached me, but the first out of proper order, the others as they were dispatched by Terentia.”

“Your welcome letter I received with delight.”

“On the 2nd of February my women-folk came to Formiae and brought me an account of your very kind and zealous attentions.”

“I have no news for you, and have not even sent you my lucubration of last night: for that was a letter full of good chee…”

“The occasion makes me brief.”

“Of our troubles you hear sooner than I.”

“[Sidenote: _Formiae, the evening of Feb.”

“[Sidenote: _Formiae, the evening of Feb.”

“Philotimus' letter delighted me little, but those who are here considerably.”

“After I had sent you a despondent and, I fear, true report about the letter Lucretius dispatched to Cassius from Capua, …”

“I have not had what you say is your experience:--"as often as my hopes revive.”

“After I sent you my letter, I got one from Pompey.”

“Many thanks for everything: for writing me your news, for not believing a report, which reflected on my energy, and for …”

“Upset by this grave and most calamitous crisis, though I have no opportunity of consulting you personally, still I wish to enjoy your advice.”

“I count Dionysius your man rather than mine: for, though I was well acquainted with his character, I held to your opinio…”

“After I sent you a letter before daybreak on the 22nd about Dionysius, on the evening of the same day came Dionysius himself.”

“After I had sealed that letter to you, which I wanted to dispatch last night (I wrote it in the evening and did dispatch it), C.”

“The one act needed to crown Pompey's disgrace is the desertion of Domitius.”

“What disgrace, and therefore what misery!”

“I am not upset at the circulation of my letter, indeed I myself let many people take a copy.”

“I spoke to Dionysius in the frankest way, when contrary to my expectations he arrived.”

“As you suppose, I am in great anxiety of mind: but it is not so great as you may imagine.”

“I am even more troubled by inflammation of the eyes than I was before.”

“Let my secretary's handwriting be proof that I am suffering from inflammation of the eyes, and that is my reason for bre…”

“I have no doubt my daily letter must bore you, especially as I have no fresh news, nor can I find any new excuse for a letter.”

“On the 3rd of March Aegypta brought me your letters, one an old one dated February 26, which you say you handed to Pinarius, whom I have not seen.”

“I have made provision for everything except a secret and safe passage to the Adriatic.”

“Although, when you read this letter, I think I shall know what has been done at Brundisium, since Pompey left Canusium o…”

“[1] Although I was expecting a rather long letter from you on the Nones of March — your day, I believe — I still thought…”

“The son of Domitius went through Formiae on the 8th of March hastening to his mother at Naples, and, when my slave Diony…”

“Though now I rest only so long as I am writing to you or reading your letters, still I am in want of subject matter, and…”

“On your birthday you wrote me a letter full of advice, full of great kindness and of great wisdom.”

“No news yet from Brundisium.”

“I wrote you a letter dated the 12th of March, but on that day the man to whom I meant to give it did not set out.”

“As I was dining on the 14th, and indeed after nightfall, Statius brought a short letter from you.”

“I got three letters from you on the 16th.”

“[1] I am truly glad, by Hercules, that your letters indicate how strongly you approve of what was done at Corfinium.”

“[1] While we were dining on the 12th day before the Ides, Statius brought a brief letter from you during the night.”

“I had just read your letter on the 20th, when an epistle was brought to me from Lepta announcing that Pompey was blockad…”

“[1] Not only the plans of humble men like ourselves, but even those of the most distinguished men, are usually judged by…”

“I sent you on the 26th of March a copy of Balbus' letter to me and of Caesar's letter to him.”

“After I had sent you a letter informing you that Caesar would be at Capua on the 26th, a letter reached me from Capua sa…”

“Though I have nothing to write to you, still, not to miss a day, I send this letter.”

“I am awaiting Trebatius on March the 27th, the date of this letter.”

“In both respects I followed your advice.”

“Since Rome was out of bounds, I celebrated my son's coming of age at Arpinum in preference to any other place, and so do…”

“[1] Caesar has sent me a very brief letter, a copy of which I append below.”

“[1] I sent you on the 9th before the Kalends a copy of Balbus's letter to me and Caesar's to him.”

“[1] After I had sent you a letter informing you that Caesar would be at Capua on the 25th, letters were brought to me fr…”

“[1] Since I had nothing to write to you about, I did not want to let a day pass without sending you this letter.”

“[1] I was expecting Trebatius on the sixth day before the Kalends, the day on which I send this letter.”

“[1] Both courses followed your advice; for my speech was such that he would think well of me rather than thank me, and I…”

“[1] Since we cannot be in Rome, I gave my son Cicero the toga of manhood at Arpinum, which seemed the best choice; and our townspeople were pleased.”

“On the third of April coming to my brother's house at Laterium, I got your letter with some little relief, a thing which…”

“I received your letter brought by Cephalio on the 5th of April.”

“Though I have nothing at all to write about, yet these points remain, which I want to know.”

“[1] On the seventh day before the Ides I am dictating this second letter to you on the same day; the previous day I had …”

“About the whole of my plans I have written to you before, as I think, exactly.”

“So far nothing stops me beyond the weather.”

“Yes, I think you are right to hedge, and stay in Apulia and Sipontum: nor do I consider that your case is the same as mine.”

“[1] I do approve of your choice of Apulia and Sipontum and this hesitation of yours.”

“The arrival of Philotimus (what a fellow he is!”

“How blind I am not to have foreseen it!”

“[1] Although I had judged that you would do nothing rashly or imprudently, I was nevertheless prompted by general report…”

“What is to happen to me?”

“Your letter was very pleasing to my daughter and of course to me, for your correspondence always brings a gleam of hope.”

“What a wretched life this is!”

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

“I had just sent a letter to you about a number of matters, when very early in the morning Dionysius came to my house.”

“On the 14th of May Hortensius came to me, just as I had written my letter.”

“My daughter was confined on the 19th of May: a boy, a seven months' child.”

“[1] What a wretched life, and how much worse to fear an evil so long than the evil itself actually is!”

“[1] Servius was with me when Cephalio arrived on the 6th day before the Ides with your letter, which gave us great hope …”

“[1] I had just given a letter to be sent to you about several matters when Dionysius came to me early in the morning.”

“[1] On the day before the Ides, Hortensius came to me with a letter already written — would that the rest of his behavior matched it!”

“[1] My Tullia gave birth on the fourteenth day before the Kalends of June to a seven-month boy.”

“I got your sealed document, which Anteros brought.”

“I received your letter on the 4th of February, and on the same day I accepted the inheritance formally according to the will.”

“What is happening here you may gather from the bearer of your letter.”

“I have received your letter by Isidorus and two written later.”

“What were the reasons, how bitter, how grave and unforeseen, which swayed me and compelled me to act by a kind of impuls…”

“[1] What reasons have moved me — how bitter, how grave, how unprecedented — and have compelled me to act from impulse ra…”

“I am much obliged to you for your letter, in which you have recorded carefully everything you think concerns me.”

“Though of course you see for yourself in what distress I am, you will learn more about it from Lepta and Trebatius.”

“I have certainly acted incautiously, as you say, and more hastily than I should; and I have no hope seeing that I am tie…”

“To my sorrows, which are incalculable, there has come an addition in the news that is brought me about the two Quinti.”

“Worn out as I am by the agony of my grievous sorrows I should not find it an easy task to write to you, even if there we…”

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

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

“I am not offended with you for telling me the truth in your letter and not even attempting, as you were wont, to console…”

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

“It is not my fault at the present time (for I did commit an error before) that the letter you send does not give me any consolation.”

“I have given this letter to some one else's messengers, who are in a hurry.”

“There is no rumour of his leaving Alexandria as yet: on the contrary, he is thought to be in great difficulties.”

“As I had a chance of giving a letter to your men, I did not miss it, though I have nothing to say.”

“On the 14th of August there arrived from Seleucea Pieria C.”

“On August 25 I received a letter from you dated Aug.”

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

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

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

“[1] What I had written to you about communicating with Camillus — Camillus wrote to me that you had spoken with him about it.”

“[1] What you have written to me — both recently and through Tullia — about my situation, I feel to be true.”

“[1] I readily agree with your letter in which you explain at length that no plan can be devised by which you could help me.”

“On the eleventh day after parting from you I have scribbled these few lines while leaving my country house before daybreak.”

“All the same there are reports here that Murcus has been lost at sea, that Asinius reached shore alive to fall into the …”

“You are the only person I know less given to flattery than myself, and, if we both fall into it sometimes in the case of…”

“How glad I was of your delightful letter!”

“Quintus the father shows no sense for the fourth time — or rather the thousandth — in rejoicing over his son Lupercus an…”

“B.”

“I have scribbled a note with all you want on a tablet, and given it to Eros—quite shortly, but more than you ask for.”

“My plan for my son meets with general approval.”

“I should be perfectly comfortable here and become more and more so every day, if it weren't for the reason I mentioned in my former letter.”

“I am very sorry to hear about Athamas.”

“I am sorry to hear about Seius.”

“With regard to the dowry make all the more effort to clear the business up.”

“I am upset about Attica, though I agree with Craterus.”

“I wrote to you yesterday about offering my excuses to Appuleius.”

“See that my excuses are paid to Appuleius every day, since you do not approve of one general excuse.”

“I do not wish you to neglect your business to come to me.”

“Marcianus has written to tell me that my excuses were made with Appuleius by Laterensis, Naso, Laenas, Torquatus and Strabo.”

“In trying to escape from the painful sting of recollection I take refuge in recalling something to your memory.”

“This is certainly a delightful place, right on the sea and within sight of Antium and Circeii.”

“You don't seem yet to see how little Antony disturbed me nor how little anything of that kind ever can disturb me now.”

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

“About Terentia, I do not recognise your usual consideration for me in throwing the whole weight of the matter on me.”

“From the beginning of your letter "though I did not care what happened in Spain, still you would write," I thought you h…”

“I am glad Silius has settled the business: for I did not want to fail him and was afraid I might not be able to manage it.”

“Sicca has written to me in detail about Silius, and says he has reported the matter to you; and you say the same in your letter.”

“According to his letter Sicca is coming to me on the 23rd, even if he has not settled anything with A.”

“As to the business with Silius, I know the terms well enough, but I expect to hear full details from Sicca to-day.”

“About Silius I have learned nothing more from Sicca now he is here than from his letter, for he had written quite fully.”

“You say you will see Silius to-day; so to-morrow, or as soon as you can, write, if anything comes of your meeting.”

“I am trying to find something to say to you; but there is nothing.”

“Sicca is surprised that Silius has changed his mind.”

“Egnatius has written to me.”

“As I said in my letter yesterday, if Silius is the sort of man you think him and Drusus is hard to deal with, I should l…”

“I could be very comfortable here considering my troubles even without Sicca—for Tiro is better; but, as you tell me to l…”

“It never occurred to me before I left you the other day, that if anything is spent on a monument in excess of whatever i…”

“I want it to be a shrine, and that idea cannot be rooted out of my mind.”

“Yesterday I received two letters from you, one given the day before to Hilarus, the other on the same day to a letter-ca…”

“I have no doubt you are overwhelmingly busy, as you send me no letter.”

“As a postman arrived without any letter from you, I inferred the reason was what you mentioned yesterday in the letter I am answering.”

“Hirtius has written to me that Sextus Pompeius has left Corduba and fled to Nearer Spain.”

“I have nothing to write.”

“I have never asked you to fix a regular day for your letters: for I see the point you mention, and yet I suspect or rath…”

“It had occurred to me to advise you to do exactly what you are doing.”

“I am not at all annoyed that Hirtius wrote to you about me in a sympathetic tone (he was acting kindly), and still less …”

“That's good news about Attica.”

“I think I shall conquer my feelings and go from Lanuvium to Tusculum.”

“About Mustela, do as you say, though it will be a big business.”

“Go on publishing Hirtius' book.”

“I felt all the time how much good your presence was doing me: but I feel it still more since you have gone.”

“I shall overcome my feelings, I think, and go on from Lanuvium to the Tusculan villa.”

“About the weasel — as you write, it is a big undertaking.”

“I want you to circulate Hirtius's book, as you are doing.”

“I felt, even while you were here, how much your presence helped me, but I feel it much more since your departure.”

“Just as your arrival had lifted my spirits, so your departure has crushed them.”

“Tiro has arrived sooner than I feared.”

“You know Lucius Tullius Montanus, who set out with Cicero.”

“Although I have nothing to write to you, I write nonetheless because I seem to be talking with you.”

“You used just the right amount of severity and of moderation in your letter to my son, and it was exactly as I should have wished it to be.”

“Your promptitude was more pleasing to me than the news you sent.”

“For my part I am so satisfied with the debtors you mention, that the only thing which disquiets me is that you seem to have doubts.”

“I have received your piece of work about the ten ambassadors: and I agree with you about Tuditanus.”

“I had thought Sp.”

“You have done quite right about the aqueduct.”

“Sestius came to see me yesterday and Theopompus too.”

“I have nothing to write; for you have only just left, and soon after you went, you sent me back my notebook.”

“You had only just left yesterday, when Trebatius came, and then Curtius shortly afterwards.”

“Brutus arrived at the Tusculan villa yesterday after the tenth hour.”

“"Not the same look.”

“Your letter about dear Attica stung me to the quick; but it healed the wound again.”

“I am not at all surprised that you are deeply troubled about Marcellus and fear many kinds of danger.”

“"It is not the same thing to see.”

“Your letters about our dear Attica bit me hard; but the same letters healed the wound.”

“Please give your earnest consideration to deciding whether what I have written ought to be sent to Varro: though the poi…”

“I wish you would consider again and again whether you are satisfied with my sending to Varro what I have written.”

“Since we were following the rivers and solitudes in order to sustain ourselves more easily, we have not yet stepped outs…”

“The copyist Hilarus had just left on the 28th, and I had given him a letter to you, when your messenger came with your letter of the day before.”

“I have received a letter of consolation from Caesar, posted on the last of April at Hispalis.”

“I have sent a very bulky letter to Hirtius, which I wrote lately at Tusculum.”

“I have my reasons for asking so persistently for your opinion about Varro.”

“The morning's letter I answered yesterday at once, now I am answering yours of the evening.”

“What am I to make of this?”

“About Andromenes I thought exactly what you say, for you would have known and told me.”

“About Vergilius' share I approve; so arrange it like that.”

“As for the letter to Caesar, I was always ready to let your friends read it first.”

“As you are going to look at the garden to-day, I shall of course hear from you to-morrow what you think of it; and about Faberius, when he has come.”

“I have heard all about the gardens from your letter and from Chrysippus.”

“I had just sent Demeas to you, when Eros arrived.”

“On the 28th in the morning Demeas delivered a letter dated the day before, from which I ought to expect you either to-day or to-morrow.”

“As I have received two letters from you to-day, I did not think it right that you should content yourself with only one of mine.”

“What extraordinary carelessness!”

“I reached Astura on the evening of the 25th: for to avoid the heat of the day I rested three hours at Lanuvium.”

“What remarkable carelessness!”

“We were talking about Varro — speak of the devil!”

“This is the second letter to-day.”

“As I was writing against the Epicureans before daybreak, I scribbled something or other to you by the same lamp and at t…”

“What incredible hypocrisy!”

“Is that so?”

“I sent Quintus your letter for your sister.”

“Young Quintus has come to me very down in the mouth.”

“Yes, I will take advantage of the postponement of the day of sale; and it was very kind of you to inform me of it, espec…”

“What a delightful letter yours was!”

“I shall certainly take advantage of the extension of the day, and you were most kind to let me know, especially by writi…”

“Pollex, having arranged to meet me on the 13th of August, has done so at Lanuvium on the 12th: but he is a mere thumb, and not a pointing finger.”

“"When from thee, Agamemnon, the message reached my ears," not "that I should come" (though I should have done that too, …”

“Yesterday in the midst of all the noise I think I caught some remark of yours about coming to Tusculum.”

“First health to Attica (who I suppose is now in the country, so I wish her a full return to health) and to Pilia too.”

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

“Yesterday I thought I heard amid the hubbub that you said you were coming to the Tusculan villa.”

“First, greetings to Attica (whom I believe to be in the country; so, warm greetings) and to Pilia.”

“Prompted by certain of your letters to begin sending fuller letters to Caesar, when Balbus recently told me at Lanuvium …”

“The copy of the letter I sent to Caesar — it slipped my mind to send you the copy at the time.”

“What a guest — burdensome, yet one I do not regret!”

“I have stopped for a visit with the man we were speaking of in the morning.”

“I had two letters from you yesterday.”

“Your letter is full of peace, and I only hope peace may last some time.”

“Do you suppose I get any news at Lanuvium?”

“I hope you are as well as I wish you to be by now, as you were fasting owing to a slight indisposition: but I should like to know how you are.”

“On the 12th I received your letter at Fundi during dinner.”

“I saw Paulus at Caieta on the 14th.”

“When you wrote, you thought I was already in one of my seaside houses, and I have received your letter on the 15th in my lodge at Sinuessa.”

“From your letters I have learned much about politics.”

“Is this what it comes to?”

“Two days ago I sent you a fairly long letter: now I answer your last.”

“My dear Atticus, I fear the Ides of March may have given us nothing but our joy and satisfaction of our hatred and resentment.”

“The letter you sent on the 19th did not reach me for seven days.”

“"Repeat your tale again to me.”

“Well done my Dolabella!”

“I despatch this letter on the 3rd, as I embark in a rowing boat from Cluvius' gardens, after handing over the villa at t…”

“What a marvel my Dolabella is!”

“You are continually reproaching me now with lauding Dolabella to the skies more than I ought.”

“Here at Pompeii on the seventh of May I received two letters, one five days old, the other three.”

“From Pompeii I came by sea to enjoy our friend Lucullus' hospitality on the 10th about nine o'clock in the morning.”

“Just after I had given Cassius' messenger a letter for you on the 11th, came my messenger, and, to my extraordinary surp…”

“As soon as I learned from Pilia that she was sending a messenger to you on the 15th, I scrawled this bit of a note.”

“From the Pompeian estate I traveled by ship to the lodgings of our friend Lucullus on the sixth day before the Ides, at about the third hour.”

“Having just sent you a letter by Cassius's courier, my own courier arrived on the fifth day before the Ides — and, a thi…”

“Informed by Pilia that couriers were being sent to you on the Ides, I immediately scribbled this, whatever it is.”

“What a misfortune about Alexio!”

“On the 18th I sent a letter to you as I was starting from Sinuessa, and stopped at.”

“On the 22nd I received two letters from you at Arpinum, in which you answered two of mine.”

“On the 24th, about four o'clock, came a messenger from Q.”

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

“Our friend Brutus and Cassius had written to me to use my authority to improve Hirtius' patriotism, since he had at pres…”

“Thanks for sending the letters.”

“After you had left came two letters 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 telling me there would be a meeting of the Senate on the 5th t…”

“What an affectionate letter from Brutus!”

“I reached Antium on the 8th.”

“That's jolly good news about Buthrotum.”

“On the 25th I received two letters from you.”

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

“Hang L.”

“At last a messenger from my son, and upon my word a letter written in first class style.”

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

“Though I think I told you sufficiently what I wanted and what I wished you to do, if it was convenient to you, in my let…”

“I tell you, this place is charming, certainly secluded, and if you want to write anything, free from prying eyes.”

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

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

“Young Quintus' absence is a blessing; he won't be a nuisance to us.”

“I am absolutely on the rack, but not with pain.”

“The messenger I sent to Brutus just got back yesterday, Servilia told him Brutus had started at half-past six in the morning.”

“Opinions differ about my journey, for I have had a lot of visitors.”

“I am wonderfully tormented — without pain, however.”

“The courier I had sent to Brutus returned on the seventh day before the Kalends, having turned back on the road.”

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

“I am sending you Brutus' letter.”

“I am glad that you advise me to do what I had already done of my own accord the day before.”

“As I wrote to you yesterday, I have decided to come to the Puteolan villa on the Nones.”

“I am sending you Brutus's letter.”

“On the 7th of Quinctilis I arrived at Puteoli, and I am writing this on the following day as I am crossing to Brutus at Nesis.”

“On the 10th I received two letters, one by my own messenger, another from Brutus'.”

“At last I am answering the letter you sent me after meeting Antony at Tibur.”

“As I told you yesterday or perhaps to-day—for Quintus said he would take two days going—I went to Nesis on the 8th: and there was Brutus.”

“Brutus is expecting a letter from you.”

“I have got as far as Sicca's house at Vibo, and at present I have taken it easy and not exerted myself.”

“When I had started from Leucopetra—for that was where I began my crossing—on the sixth of August and gone some forty mil…”

“When I know what day I shall arrive, I will let you know.”

“Two letters on one day from Octavian, now asking me to come to Rome at once, as he wishes to act through the Senate.”

“On the 7th I reached my house at Sinuessa, and on that day it was generally said that Antony was going to stay at Casilinum.”

“On the 5th I received two letters from you, one dated the first, the other a day earlier.”

“I am sending you a copy of Oppius' letter, because it is so very courteous.”

“What a strange coincidence!”

“I have nothing whatever to write about.”

“Don't think it is laziness that prevents my writing myself; and yet, to be sure, it is nothing but laziness, for I have no other excuse to make.”

“Do not think it is laziness that makes me not write in my own hand — but, by Hercules, it is laziness.”

“I read your most delightful letter.”

“I have learned that our friend Atticus holds you in great esteem, and that you for your part have such regard for me tha…”

“I asked you before by letter that, since the case of the Buthrotians had been approved by the consuls — who were authori…”

“I never thought I would come to you as a suppliant; but, by Hercules, I willingly accept the occasion that has revealed the depth of your affection.”

“I held your father in the highest regard, and he showed me remarkable respect and affection; nor, by Hercules, have I ev…”

“Forgive me for writing to you again about the Buthrotians, having already written most carefully on the same subject before.”

“I have no doubt you are surprised and perhaps annoyed that I press you on the same matter so often.”