Marcus Tullius Cicero→Titus Pomponius Atticus|c. -46 AD|Cicero|AI-assisted
It never occurred to me before I left you the other day, that if
anything is spent on a monument in excess of whatever it is that the law
allows, one has to give an equal sum to the public funds. That would not
disturb me much, if it were not that somehow or other, perhaps without
any good reason, I should be sorry for it to be called anything but a
shrine. If I want that, I'm afraid I can't have it, unless I change the
site. Please consider what there is in this point. For though I am less
anxious and have almost recovered myself, still I want your advice. So I
entreat you with more urgency than you wish or allow me to use, to give
your whole mind to considering this question.
ego, ut heri ad te scripsi, si et Silius is fuerit quem tu putas nec Drusus facilem se praebuerit, Damasippum velim adgrediare. is, opinor, ita partis fecit in ripa nescio quotenorum iugerum ut certa pretia constitueret; quae mihi nota non sunt. scribes ad me igitur quicquid egeris. [2] vehementer me sollicitat Atticae nostrae valetudo ut verear etiam ne quae culpa sit. sed et paedagogi probitas et medici adsiduitas et tota domus in omni genere diligens me rursus id suspicari vetat. cura igitur; plura enim non possum.
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It never occurred to me before I left you the other day, that if anything is spent on a monument in excess of whatever it is that the law allows, one has to give an equal sum to the public funds. That would not disturb me much, if it were not that somehow or other, perhaps without any good reason, I should be sorry for it to be called anything but a shrine. If I want that, I'm afraid I can't have it, unless I change the site. Please consider what there is in this point. For though I am less anxious and have almost recovered myself, still I want your advice. So I entreat you with more urgency than you wish or allow me to use, to give your whole mind to considering this question.
Latin / Greek Original
ego, ut heri ad te scripsi, si et Silius is fuerit quem tu putas nec Drusus facilem se praebuerit, Damasippum velim adgrediare. is, opinor, ita partis fecit in ripa nescio quotenorum iugerum ut certa pretia constitueret; quae mihi nota non sunt. scribes ad me igitur quicquid egeris. [2] vehementer me sollicitat Atticae nostrae valetudo ut verear etiam ne quae culpa sit. sed et paedagogi probitas et medici adsiduitas et tota domus in omni genere diligens me rursus id suspicari vetat. cura igitur; plura enim non possum.