Marcus Tullius Cicero→Titus Pomponius Atticus|c. -45 AD|Cicero|AI-assisted
Sestius came to see me yesterday and Theopompus too. He told me that
Caesar had sent a letter saying he had resolved to stay at Rome and
assigning as a reason the one mentioned in my letter, fear that if he
went away his laws would be disregarded, as his sumptuary law was. That
is reasonable enough and is just what I suspected. But I must humour
your friends, unless you think I could use that very line of argument.
He tells me too that Lentulus has certainly divorced Metella. But you
will know all this better than he does. So please send an
answer,—anything you like provided it is something. For at the moment I
cannot think of anything you will put in your answer, unless it is
something about Mustela, or unless you see Silius.
Brutus came to Tusculum yesterday after four o'clock. So to-day he will
see me, and I wish you were with me. I sent him word that you had waited
for him as long as you could, and that you would come, if you heard; and
I would let you know, as soon as I could, which I am doing.
de aquae ductu probe fecisti. Columniftum vide ne nullum debeamus; quamquam mihi videor isse <a> Camillo commutatam esse legem. [2] Pisoni quid est quod honestius respondere possimus quam solitudinem Catonis? nec coheredibus solum Herennianis sed etiam, ut scis (tu enim mecum egisti), de puero Lucullo, quam pecuniam tutor (nam hoc quoque ad rem pertinet) in Achaia sumpserat. sed agit liberaliter, quoniam negat se quicquam facturum contra nostram voluntatem. coram igitur ut scribis, constituemus quem ad modum rem explicemus. quod reliquos coheredes convenisti, plane bene. [3] quod epistulam meam ad Brutum poscis, non habeo eius exemplum; sed tamen salvum est et ait Tiro te habere oportere et, ut recordor, una cum illius obiurgatoria tibi meam quoque quam ad eum rescripseram misi. [4] iudiciali molestia ut caream videbis.
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Sestius came to see me yesterday and Theopompus too. He told me that Caesar had sent a letter saying he had resolved to stay at Rome and assigning as a reason the one mentioned in my letter, fear that if he went away his laws would be disregarded, as his sumptuary law was. That is reasonable enough and is just what I suspected. But I must humour your friends, unless you think I could use that very line of argument. He tells me too that Lentulus has certainly divorced Metella. But you will know all this better than he does. So please send an answer,—anything you like provided it is something. For at the moment I cannot think of anything you will put in your answer, unless it is something about Mustela, or unless you see Silius.
Brutus came to Tusculum yesterday after four o'clock. So to-day he will see me, and I wish you were with me. I sent him word that you had waited for him as long as you could, and that you would come, if you heard; and I would let you know, as soon as I could, which I am doing.
Latin / Greek Original
de aquae ductu probe fecisti. Columniftum vide ne nullum debeamus; quamquam mihi videor isse <a> Camillo commutatam esse legem. [2] Pisoni quid est quod honestius respondere possimus quam solitudinem Catonis? nec coheredibus solum Herennianis sed etiam, ut scis (tu enim mecum egisti), de puero Lucullo, quam pecuniam tutor (nam hoc quoque ad rem pertinet) in Achaia sumpserat. sed agit liberaliter, quoniam negat se quicquam facturum contra nostram voluntatem. coram igitur ut scribis, constituemus quem ad modum rem explicemus. quod reliquos coheredes convenisti, plane bene. [3] quod epistulam meam ad Brutum poscis, non habeo eius exemplum; sed tamen salvum est et ait Tiro te habere oportere et, ut recordor, una cum illius obiurgatoria tibi meam quoque quam ad eum rescripseram misi. [4] iudiciali molestia ut caream videbis.