Marcus Tullius Cicero→Titus Pomponius Atticus|c. -46 AD|Cicero|AI-assisted
Quintus the father shows no sense for the fourth time — or rather the thousandth — in rejoicing over his son Lupercus and Statius, only to behold his house heaped with double disgrace. I add Philotimus as a third. What folly — unless my own is greater!
Quintus pater quartum vel potius millesimum nihil sapit qui laetetur Luperco filio et Statio ut cernat duplici dedecore cumulatam domum. addo etiam Philotimum tertium. O stultitiam, nisi mea maior esset, singularem! quod autem os in hanc rem e)/ranon a te! fac non ad ' diyw=san krh/nhn ' sed ad Peirh/nhn eum venisse, ' a)/mpneuma semno\n )Alfeiou= ' in te ' krh/nh? ,' ut scribis, haurire in tantis suis praesertim angustiis, poi= tau=ta a)/ra a)poskh/yei; ; [2] sed ipse viderit. Cato me quidem delectat, sed etiam Bassum Lucilium sua.
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Quintus the father shows no sense for the fourth time — or rather the thousandth — in rejoicing over his son Lupercus and Statius, only to behold his house heaped with double disgrace. I add Philotimus as a third. What folly — unless my own is greater!
Latin / Greek Original
Quintus pater quartum vel potius millesimum nihil sapit qui laetetur Luperco filio et Statio ut cernat duplici dedecore cumulatam domum. addo etiam Philotimum tertium. O stultitiam, nisi mea maior esset, singularem! quod autem os in hanc rem e)/ranon a te! fac non ad ' diyw=san krh/nhn ' sed ad Peirh/nhn eum venisse, ' a)/mpneuma semno\n )Alfeiou= ' in te ' krh/nh? ,' ut scribis, haurire in tantis suis praesertim angustiis, poi= tau=ta a)/ra a)poskh/yei; ; [2] sed ipse viderit. Cato me quidem delectat, sed etiam Bassum Lucilium sua.