Letter 248

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. Nothing could be pleasanter than this solitude, except for the occasional interruptions of Amyntas' son. How his chatter does bore one! All the rest is more charming than you can imagine, the villa, the shore, villa, litore, prospectu maris, tumulis, his rebus omnibus. Sed neque haec digna longioribus litteris, nec erat, quod scriberem, et somnus urgebat.

de Cicerone multis res placet. Comes est idoneus. sed de prima pensione ante videamus. adest enim dies et ille currit. scribe, quaeso, quid referat Celer egisse Caesarem cum candidatis, utrum ipse in fenicularium an in Martium campum cogitet. et scire sane velim numquid necesse sit comitiis esse Romae. nam et Piliae satis faciendum est et utique Atticae.