Marcus Tullius Cicero→Titus Pomponius Atticus|c. -47 AD|Cicero|AI-assisted
As I had a chance of giving a letter to your men, I did not miss it,
though I have nothing to say. You are writing less often than you used
to do and less fully, I suppose because you have nothing that you think
I should be glad to read or hear. However please write, if there is
anything of any kind whatever. There is one thing that I do long for,
any possibility of a peace: myself I have no hope of such a thing: but,
as you sometimes give a slight hint, you compel me to have some hope of
what I hardly dare long for.
Philotimus is said to be coming on the 13th of August. Of Caesar I
have no further news. Please answer my former letter. I only want time
enough to take some precaution now in my misfortunes, as I have never
taken any before. Farewell.
July 22.
[1] ego cum Sallustio Ciceronem ad Caesarem mittere cogitabam; Tulliam autem non videbam esse causam cur diutius mecum tanto in communi maerore retinerem. itaque matri eam, cum primum per ipsam liceret, eram remissurus. Paeto, +que ad modum consolandis scripsisti+, putato ea me scripsisse quae tu ipse intellegis responderi potuisse. [2] quod Oppium tecum scribis locutum, non abhorret a mea suspicione eius oratio. sed non dubito quin istis persuaderi nullo modo possit ea quae faciant mihi probari posse, quoquo modo loquar. ego tamen utar moderatione qua potero; quamquam quid mea intersit ut eorum odium subeam non intellego. [3] te iusta causa impediri quo minus ad nos venias video, idque mihi valde molestum est. illum ab Alexandrea discessisse nemo nuntiat constatque ne profectum quidem illim quemquam post Idus Martias nec post Idus Decembr. ab illo datas ullas litteras. ex quo intellegis illud de litteris a. d. v Idus Febr. datis, quod inane esset etiam si verum esset, non verum esse. L. Terentium discessisse ex Africa scimus Paestumque venisse. quid is adferat aut quo modo exierit aut quid in Africa fiat scire velim. dicitur enim per Nasidium emissus esse. id quale sit velim, si inveneris, ad me scribas. de HS X_, ut scribis, faciam. vale. xvii Kal. Quintilis.
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As I had a chance of giving a letter to your men, I did not miss it, though I have nothing to say. You are writing less often than you used to do and less fully, I suppose because you have nothing that you think I should be glad to read or hear. However please write, if there is anything of any kind whatever. There is one thing that I do long for, any possibility of a peace: myself I have no hope of such a thing: but, as you sometimes give a slight hint, you compel me to have some hope of what I hardly dare long for.
Philotimus is said to be coming on the 13th of August. Of Caesar I have no further news. Please answer my former letter. I only want time enough to take some precaution now in my misfortunes, as I have never taken any before. Farewell.
July 22.
Latin / Greek Original
[1] ego cum Sallustio Ciceronem ad Caesarem mittere cogitabam; Tulliam autem non videbam esse causam cur diutius mecum tanto in communi maerore retinerem. itaque matri eam, cum primum per ipsam liceret, eram remissurus. Paeto, +que ad modum consolandis scripsisti+, putato ea me scripsisse quae tu ipse intellegis responderi potuisse. [2] quod Oppium tecum scribis locutum, non abhorret a mea suspicione eius oratio. sed non dubito quin istis persuaderi nullo modo possit ea quae faciant mihi probari posse, quoquo modo loquar. ego tamen utar moderatione qua potero; quamquam quid mea intersit ut eorum odium subeam non intellego. [3] te iusta causa impediri quo minus ad nos venias video, idque mihi valde molestum est. illum ab Alexandrea discessisse nemo nuntiat constatque ne profectum quidem illim quemquam post Idus Martias nec post Idus Decembr. ab illo datas ullas litteras. ex quo intellegis illud de litteris a. d. v Idus Febr. datis, quod inane esset etiam si verum esset, non verum esse. L. Terentium discessisse ex Africa scimus Paestumque venisse. quid is adferat aut quo modo exierit aut quid in Africa fiat scire velim. dicitur enim per Nasidium emissus esse. id quale sit velim, si inveneris, ad me scribas. de HS X_, ut scribis, faciam. vale. xvii Kal. Quintilis.