Marcus Tullius Cicero→Titus Pomponius Atticus|c. -46 AD|Cicero|AI-assisted
It had occurred to me to advise you to do exactly what you are doing.
For I thought you could get that particular business over more
conveniently at home without any fear of interruption.
As I said before, I intend to stop at Lanuvium on the 16th, and then
either at Rome or Tusculum. You shall know in advance which. You are
right in saying that will lighten my sorrow, but believe me it will do
so to an extent which you cannot imagine. How eagerly I desire it you
can judge from my daring to confess it to you, though I think you do not
very much approve of it. But you must bear with my aberration. Bear with
it? Nay you must help me in it. I have doubts about Otho, perhaps
because I am eager for his place. But anyhow the property is beyond my
means, especially
praesertim adversario et cupido et locuplete et herede. Proximum est, ut
velim Clodiae. Sed, si ista minus confici possunt, effice quidvis. Ego
me maiore religione, quam quisquam fuit ullius voti, obstrictum puto.
Videbis etiam Trebonianos, etsi absunt domini. Sed, ut ad te heri
scripsi, considerabis etiam de Tusculano, ne aestas effluat; quod certe
non est committendum.
tabellarius ad me cum sine litteris tuis venisset, existimavi tibi eam causam non scribendi fuisse quod pridie scripsisses ea ipsa ad quam rescripsi epistula. exspectaram tamen aliquid de litteris Asini Pollionis. sed nimium ex meo otio tuum specto. quamquam tibi remitto, nisi quid necesse erit, necesse ne habeas scribere nisi eris valde otiosus. [2] de tabellariis facerem quod suades, si essent ullae necessariae litterae, ut erant olim cum tamen brevioribus diebus cotidie respondebant tempori tabellam, et erat aliquid, Silius, Drusus, alia quaedam. nunc nisi Otho exstitisset, quod scriberemus non erat; <id> ipsum dilatum est. tamen adlevor cum loquor tecum absens, multo etiam magis cum tuas litteras lego. sed quoniam et abes (sic enim arbitror) et scribendi necessitas nulla est, conquiescent litterae nisi quid novi exstiterit.
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It had occurred to me to advise you to do exactly what you are doing. For I thought you could get that particular business over more conveniently at home without any fear of interruption.
As I said before, I intend to stop at Lanuvium on the 16th, and then either at Rome or Tusculum. You shall know in advance which. You are right in saying that will lighten my sorrow, but believe me it will do so to an extent which you cannot imagine. How eagerly I desire it you can judge from my daring to confess it to you, though I think you do not very much approve of it. But you must bear with my aberration. Bear with it? Nay you must help me in it. I have doubts about Otho, perhaps because I am eager for his place. But anyhow the property is beyond my means, especially
praesertim adversario et cupido et locuplete et herede. Proximum est, ut velim Clodiae. Sed, si ista minus confici possunt, effice quidvis. Ego me maiore religione, quam quisquam fuit ullius voti, obstrictum puto. Videbis etiam Trebonianos, etsi absunt domini. Sed, ut ad te heri scripsi, considerabis etiam de Tusculano, ne aestas effluat; quod certe non est committendum.
Latin / Greek Original
tabellarius ad me cum sine litteris tuis venisset, existimavi tibi eam causam non scribendi fuisse quod pridie scripsisses ea ipsa ad quam rescripsi epistula. exspectaram tamen aliquid de litteris Asini Pollionis. sed nimium ex meo otio tuum specto. quamquam tibi remitto, nisi quid necesse erit, necesse ne habeas scribere nisi eris valde otiosus. [2] de tabellariis facerem quod suades, si essent ullae necessariae litterae, ut erant olim cum tamen brevioribus diebus cotidie respondebant tempori tabellam, et erat aliquid, Silius, Drusus, alia quaedam. nunc nisi Otho exstitisset, quod scriberemus non erat; <id> ipsum dilatum est. tamen adlevor cum loquor tecum absens, multo etiam magis cum tuas litteras lego. sed quoniam et abes (sic enim arbitror) et scribendi necessitas nulla est, conquiescent litterae nisi quid novi exstiterit.