Marcus Tullius Cicero→Titus Pomponius Atticus|c. -44 AD|Cicero|AI-assisted
Though I think I told you sufficiently what I wanted and what I wished
you to do, if it was convenient to you, in my letter of the 15th, still,
when I had started and was crossing the lake, I determined to send Tiro
to you that he might attend to the necessary matters with you; and I
wrote, too, to Dolabella, saying I wanted to start if he agreed, and
asked him about baggage mules. So far as you can—I understand you are
utterly distracted with business, what with the Buthrotians and what
with Brutus, as I expect the care and arrangement of his sumptuous games
fall largely to your share—still, so far as you can, give a little
attention to my affairs. I shall not want much.
To me things seem to foreshadow bloodshed, and that quite soon. You see
the men, you see their warlike preparations. Indeed I do not count
myself safe at all. If you think differently, I wish you would write.
For, if I can with safety, I should much prefer to stay at home.
tandem a Cicerone tabellarius et me hercule litterae pepinwme/nwj scriptae, quod ipsum prokoph\n aliquam significat, itemque ceteri praeclara scribunt; Leonides tamen retinet suum illud 'adhuc,' summis vero laudibus Herodes. quid quaeris? vel verba mihi dari facile patior in hoc meque libenter praebeo credulum. tu velim, si quid tibi est a Statio scriptum quod pertineat ad me, certiorem me facias.
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Though I think I told you sufficiently what I wanted and what I wished you to do, if it was convenient to you, in my letter of the 15th, still, when I had started and was crossing the lake, I determined to send Tiro to you that he might attend to the necessary matters with you; and I wrote, too, to Dolabella, saying I wanted to start if he agreed, and asked him about baggage mules. So far as you can—I understand you are utterly distracted with business, what with the Buthrotians and what with Brutus, as I expect the care and arrangement of his sumptuous games fall largely to your share—still, so far as you can, give a little attention to my affairs. I shall not want much.
To me things seem to foreshadow bloodshed, and that quite soon. You see the men, you see their warlike preparations. Indeed I do not count myself safe at all. If you think differently, I wish you would write. For, if I can with safety, I should much prefer to stay at home.
Latin / Greek Original
tandem a Cicerone tabellarius et me hercule litterae pepinwme/nwj scriptae, quod ipsum prokoph\n aliquam significat, itemque ceteri praeclara scribunt; Leonides tamen retinet suum illud 'adhuc,' summis vero laudibus Herodes. quid quaeris? vel verba mihi dari facile patior in hoc meque libenter praebeo credulum. tu velim, si quid tibi est a Statio scriptum quod pertineat ad me, certiorem me facias.