Letter 328
As I have received two letters from you to-day, I did not think it right
that you should content yourself with only one of mine. Pray do as you
say about Faberius. For on that depends entirely what I am thinking of.
And, if that idea had never occurred to me, believe me I should not
bother about that any more than anything else. So continue your
energy—for you cannot add to it—and push on and finish the matter.
Please send me Dicaearchus' two books _About the Soul_ and the
_Descent_. I can't find the _Mixed Constitution_ and the letter he
sent to Aristoxenus. I should much like to have those three books now;
they would bear on what I am planning. Torquatus is in Rome. I have
sent orders for it to be given to you. Catulus and Lucullus I believe
you have already. I have added new prefaces to the books, in which each
of them is mentioned with honour. Those compositions I should like you
to have, and there are some others too. What I said about the ten
legates, you did not fully understand, I suppose because I wrote it in
shorthand. I was asking about C. Tuditanus, who Hortensius told me
was one of them. I see in Libo that he was praetor in the consulship of
P. Popilius and P. Rupilius. Could he have been legate fourteen years
before he was praetor, unless he was very late in getting the
quaestorship? I don't think that was the case; for
enim curules magistratus eum legitimis annis perfacile cepisse.
Postumium autem, cuius statuam in Isthmo meminisse te dicis, nesciebam
fuisse. Is autem est, qui cos. cum L. Lucullo fuit; quem tu mihi
addidisti sane ad illum σύλλογον personam idoneam. Videbis igitur, si
poteris, ceteros, ut possimus πομπεῦσαι καὶ τοῖς προσώποις.
Latin / Greek Original
commodum ad te miseram Demean quom Eros ad me venit. sed in eius epistula nihil erat novi nisi auctionem biduum. ab ea igitur, ut scribis, et velim confecto negotio Faberiano; quem quidem negat Eros hodie, cras mane putat. <A> te colendus est; istae autem kolakei=ai ?at non longe absunt a scelere. <te>, ut spero, perendie. [2] mi, sicunde potes, erues qui decem legati Mummio fuerint. Polybius non nominat. ego memini Albinum consularem et Sp. Mummium; videor audisse ex Hortensio Tuditanum. sed in Libonis annali xiiii annis post praetor est factus Tuditanus quam consul Mummius. non sane quadrat. volo aliquem Olympiae aut ubi visum politiko\n su/llogon more Dicaearchi familiaris tui.