Marcus Tullius Cicero→Titus Pomponius Atticus|c. -44 AD|Cicero|AI-assisted
Opinions differ about my journey, for I have had a lot of visitors. But
please apply yourself to the question. It is a serious matter. Do you
approve of my idea of returning by the 1st of January? I am open-minded
on the subject, provided I don't give any offence. By the way, too, do
you know the date of the sacrilege of yore? However that may be,
chance will decide the plan of my journey. So let us leave it in doubt.
For a winter journey is most unpleasant, and that was why I asked you
the date of the mysteries. Brutus, as you say, I think I shall see.
I want to leave here on the last of the month.
gratulor nobis Quintum filium exisse. molestus non erit. Pansam bene loqui credo. semper enim coniunctum esse cum Hirtio scio; amicissimum Bruto et Cassio puto, si expediet (sed quando illos videbit?), inimicum Antonio, quando aut cur? quousque ludemur? ego autem scripsi Sextum adventare, non quo iam adesset sed quia certe id ageret ab armisque nullus discederet. certe si pergit, bellum paratum est. hic autem noster Cytherius nisi victorem neminem victurum. quid ad haec Pansa? utrobi erit, si bellum erit? quod videtur fore. sed et haec et alia coram hodie quidem, ut scribis, aut cras.
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Opinions differ about my journey, for I have had a lot of visitors. But please apply yourself to the question. It is a serious matter. Do you approve of my idea of returning by the 1st of January? I am open-minded on the subject, provided I don't give any offence. By the way, too, do you know the date of the sacrilege of yore? However that may be, chance will decide the plan of my journey. So let us leave it in doubt. For a winter journey is most unpleasant, and that was why I asked you the date of the mysteries. Brutus, as you say, I think I shall see. I want to leave here on the last of the month.
Latin / Greek Original
gratulor nobis Quintum filium exisse. molestus non erit. Pansam bene loqui credo. semper enim coniunctum esse cum Hirtio scio; amicissimum Bruto et Cassio puto, si expediet (sed quando illos videbit?), inimicum Antonio, quando aut cur? quousque ludemur? ego autem scripsi Sextum adventare, non quo iam adesset sed quia certe id ageret ab armisque nullus discederet. certe si pergit, bellum paratum est. hic autem noster Cytherius nisi victorem neminem victurum. quid ad haec Pansa? utrobi erit, si bellum erit? quod videtur fore. sed et haec et alia coram hodie quidem, ut scribis, aut cras.