Marcus Tullius Cicero→Titus Pomponius Atticus|c. -45 AD|Cicero|AI-assisted
Yesterday in the midst of all the noise I think I caught some remark of
yours about coming to Tusculum. I wish you would. I wish to goodness you
would: but at your convenience.
Lepta asks me to go to him, if there is any necessity: for Babullius is
dead. Caesar, I fancy, is heir to one-twelfth of his estate—though I
know nothing yet: but Lepta to a third. He is afraid he may not be
allowed to take the inheritance. It is absurd of course, but still he is
afraid. So, if he sends for me, I shall go at once: if not, not till it
is necessary. Send back Pollex, when you can.
I am sending you the funeral oration of Porcia corrected. I have hurried
about it, so that, if it should be sent to young Domitius or to Brutus,
this edition should be sent. If it is convenient, I should much like you
to see about it, and please send me the orations of M. Varro, and
Ollius, at any rate that of Ollius. I have read it, but I want to dip
into it again: for there are things in it that I can hardly believe I
read.
Pollex quidem, ut dixerat ad Idus Sextilis, ita mihi Lanuvi pridie Idus praesto fuit, sed plane pollex, non index. [2] cognosces igitur ex ipso. Balbum conveni--Lepta enim de sua munerum curatione laborans me ad eum perduxerat--in eo autem Lanuvino quod Lepido tradidit. ex eo hoc primum, 'Paulo ante acceperam eas litteras in quibus magno opere confirmat ante ludos Romanos.' legi epistulam. multa de meo Catone, quo saepissime legendo se dicit copiosiorem factum, Bruti Catone lecto se sibi visum disertum. <tum> ex eo cognovi cretionem Cluvi Vestorium neglegentem!) liberam cretionem testibus praesentibus sexaginta diebus. metuebam ne ille arcessendus esset. nunc mittendum est ut meo iussu cernat. idem igitur Pollex. etiam de hortis Cluvianis egi cum Balbo. nil liberalius. se enim statim ad Caesarem scripturum, Cluvium autem a T. Hordeonio legare et Terentiae HS i[c][c][c] et sepulcro multisque rebus, nihil a nobis. subaccusa, quaeso, Vestorium. quid minus probandum quam Plotium unguentarium per suos pueros omnia tanto ante Balbo, illum mi ne per meos quidem? de Cossinio doleo; dilexi hominem. [4] Quinto delegabo si quid aeri meo alieno superabit et emptionibus ex quibus mi etiam aes alienum faciendum puto. de domo Arpini nil scio. Vestorium nil est quod accuses. iam enim obsignata hac epistula noctu tabellarius noster venit et ab eo litteras diligenter scriptas attulit et exemplum testamenti.
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Yesterday in the midst of all the noise I think I caught some remark of yours about coming to Tusculum. I wish you would. I wish to goodness you would: but at your convenience.
Lepta asks me to go to him, if there is any necessity: for Babullius is dead. Caesar, I fancy, is heir to one-twelfth of his estate—though I know nothing yet: but Lepta to a third. He is afraid he may not be allowed to take the inheritance. It is absurd of course, but still he is afraid. So, if he sends for me, I shall go at once: if not, not till it is necessary. Send back Pollex, when you can.
I am sending you the funeral oration of Porcia corrected. I have hurried about it, so that, if it should be sent to young Domitius or to Brutus, this edition should be sent. If it is convenient, I should much like you to see about it, and please send me the orations of M. Varro, and Ollius, at any rate that of Ollius. I have read it, but I want to dip into it again: for there are things in it that I can hardly believe I read.
Latin / Greek Original
Pollex quidem, ut dixerat ad Idus Sextilis, ita mihi Lanuvi pridie Idus praesto fuit, sed plane pollex, non index. [2] cognosces igitur ex ipso. Balbum conveni--Lepta enim de sua munerum curatione laborans me ad eum perduxerat--in eo autem Lanuvino quod Lepido tradidit. ex eo hoc primum, 'Paulo ante acceperam eas litteras in quibus magno opere confirmat ante ludos Romanos.' legi epistulam. multa de meo Catone, quo saepissime legendo se dicit copiosiorem factum, Bruti Catone lecto se sibi visum disertum. <tum> ex eo cognovi cretionem Cluvi Vestorium neglegentem!) liberam cretionem testibus praesentibus sexaginta diebus. metuebam ne ille arcessendus esset. nunc mittendum est ut meo iussu cernat. idem igitur Pollex. etiam de hortis Cluvianis egi cum Balbo. nil liberalius. se enim statim ad Caesarem scripturum, Cluvium autem a T. Hordeonio legare et Terentiae HS i[c][c][c] et sepulcro multisque rebus, nihil a nobis. subaccusa, quaeso, Vestorium. quid minus probandum quam Plotium unguentarium per suos pueros omnia tanto ante Balbo, illum mi ne per meos quidem? de Cossinio doleo; dilexi hominem. [4] Quinto delegabo si quid aeri meo alieno superabit et emptionibus ex quibus mi etiam aes alienum faciendum puto. de domo Arpini nil scio. Vestorium nil est quod accuses. iam enim obsignata hac epistula noctu tabellarius noster venit et ab eo litteras diligenter scriptas attulit et exemplum testamenti.