Marcus Tullius Cicero→Titus Pomponius Atticus|c. -49 AD|Cicero|AI-assisted
After I sent you a letter before daybreak on the 22nd about Dionysius,
on the evening of the same day came Dionysius himself. I cannot but
think that it was by your influence, though he is wont to repent of his
fits of temper, and this is the maddest business he has had a hand in.
I did not tell you before, but I heard later, that, when he had got
three miles from Rome, he took fright,
"When he had vainly butted with his horns
The vacant air."
Author unknown.
I mean he cursed roundly. May his curses fall on his own head, as the
saying goes. But look at my good nature. I enclosed in your packet a
strong letter for him. I should be glad to have it returned; and
causam Pollicem servum a pedibus meis Romam misi. Eo autem ad te
scripsi, ut, si tibi forte reddita esset, mihi curares referendam, ne
in illius manus perveniret.
Novi si quid esset, scripsissem. Pendeo animi exspectatione
Corfiniensi, in qua de salute rei publicae decernetur. Tu fasciculum,
qui est M'. Curio inscriptus, velim cures ad eum perferendum Tironemque
Curio commendes et, ut det ei, si quid opus erit in sumptum, roges.
Cum ante lucem viii Kal. litteras ad te de Dionysio dedissem, vesperi ad nos eodem die venit ipse Dionysius auctoritate tua permotus, ut suspicor; quid enim putem aliud? etsi solet eum, cum aliquid furiose fecit, paenitere. numquam autem cerritior fuit quam in hoc negotio. nam quod ad te non scripseram, postea audivi a tertio miliario tum eum isse polla maten keraessin es eera thumenanta, multa, inquam, mala cum dixisset: suo capiti, ut aiunt. sed en meam mansuetudinem! Coniecenim in fasciculum una cum tua vehementem ad illum epistulam. hanc ad me referri volo nec ullam ob aliam causam Pollicem servum a pedibus meum Romam misi. eo autem ad te scripsi ut, si tibi forte reddita esset, mihi curares referendam, ne in illius manus perveniret. [2] Novi si quid esset scripsissem. pendeo animi exspectatione (de re) Corfiniensi, in qua de salute rei publicae decernetur. tu fasciculum, qui est M'. Curio inscriptus, velim cures ad eum perferendum Tironemque Curio commendes et ut det ei si quid opus erit in sumptum roges.
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After I sent you a letter before daybreak on the 22nd about Dionysius, on the evening of the same day came Dionysius himself. I cannot but think that it was by your influence, though he is wont to repent of his fits of temper, and this is the maddest business he has had a hand in. I did not tell you before, but I heard later, that, when he had got three miles from Rome, he took fright,
"When he had vainly butted with his horns The vacant air."
Author unknown.
I mean he cursed roundly. May his curses fall on his own head, as the saying goes. But look at my good nature. I enclosed in your packet a strong letter for him. I should be glad to have it returned; and
causam Pollicem servum a pedibus meis Romam misi. Eo autem ad te scripsi, ut, si tibi forte reddita esset, mihi curares referendam, ne in illius manus perveniret.
Novi si quid esset, scripsissem. Pendeo animi exspectatione Corfiniensi, in qua de salute rei publicae decernetur. Tu fasciculum, qui est M'. Curio inscriptus, velim cures ad eum perferendum Tironemque Curio commendes et, ut det ei, si quid opus erit in sumptum, roges.
Latin / Greek Original
Cum ante lucem viii Kal. litteras ad te de Dionysio dedissem, vesperi ad nos eodem die venit ipse Dionysius auctoritate tua permotus, ut suspicor; quid enim putem aliud? etsi solet eum, cum aliquid furiose fecit, paenitere. numquam autem cerritior fuit quam in hoc negotio. nam quod ad te non scripseram, postea audivi a tertio miliario tum eum isse polla maten keraessin es eera thumenanta, multa, inquam, mala cum dixisset: suo capiti, ut aiunt. sed en meam mansuetudinem! Coniecenim in fasciculum una cum tua vehementem ad illum epistulam. hanc ad me referri volo nec ullam ob aliam causam Pollicem servum a pedibus meum Romam misi. eo autem ad te scripsi ut, si tibi forte reddita esset, mihi curares referendam, ne in illius manus perveniret. [2] Novi si quid esset scripsissem. pendeo animi exspectatione (de re) Corfiniensi, in qua de salute rei publicae decernetur. tu fasciculum, qui est M'. Curio inscriptus, velim cures ad eum perferendum Tironemque Curio commendes et ut det ei si quid opus erit in sumptum roges.