Letter 298
Your promptitude was more pleasing to me than the news you sent. For
what could be more insulting? However I have hardened myself to insult,
and put off all human feeling. I am looking forward to your letter
to-day, not that I expect any news. What could there be? However ——.
Please have the letters sent to Balbus and Oppius, and anyhow speak to
Piso about the gold when you can. If Faberius comes, see that the right
amount of the debt is put to my credit, if anything is. Eros will tell
you about it.
Ariarathes, son of Ariobarzanes, has come to Rome, I suppose he wants to
buy some kingdom from Caesar: for, as things are at present, he cannot
set foot in his own. Our friend Sestius, in his character of public
host, has monopolized him; and I am not sorry for it. However, as I am
intimate with
quod mihi summo beneficio meo magna cum fratribus illius necessitudo
est, invito eum per litteras, ut apud me deversetur. Ad eam rem cum
mitterem Alexandrum, has ei dedi litteras.
So to-morrow is Peducaeus' auction. Come when you can, then. But
perhaps Faberius will prevent you. However, when you can manage it. Our
friend Dionysius is complaining loudly at being so long away from his
pupils, and there is some justice in his complaint. He has written a
long letter to me, and I expect to you too. I think he will be away for
some time still: and I am sorry, for I miss him very much.
I am expecting a letter from you, but not yet, as I am writing in the
early morning.
Latin / Greek Original
Oppio et Balbo epistulas deferri iubebis, et tamen Pisonem sicubi de auro. Faberius si venerit, videbis ut tantum attribuatur, si modo attribuetur, quantum debetur. accipies ab Erote. Ariarathes Ariobarzani filius Romam venit. [2] vult, opinor, regnum aliquod emere a Caesare; nam quo modo nunc est, pedem ubi ponat in suo non habet. omnino eum Sestius noster parochus publicus occupavit; quod quidem facile patior. verum tamen, quod mihi summo beneficio meo magna cum fratribus illius necessitudo est, invito eum per litteras ut apud me deversetur. ad eam rem cum mitterem Alexandrum, has ei dedi litteras.