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cicero_familiares · c. -43 · score 0.02
If I doubted your goodwill toward me, I would ask you at great length to protect my dignity. But it is surely the case, as I have persuaded myself, that you care about me. I have advanced against the Inalpini with my army, not so much seeking the title of imperator as wishing to satisfy my soldiers and make them firm i …
cicero_familiares · c. -48 · score 0.02
But still I had told my son to read the book to you and take it back, or give it to you on condition that you would undertake to correct it, that is, to make it entirely different. As for the Asian journey, although the most pressing necessity weighed upon me, I did as you commanded. As for what I should urge you to do …
cicero_familiares · c. -45 · score 0.02
Therefore I wish, my most dear Cicero, that if Pompey happens to be driven from these places too and forced to seek other regions, you should withdraw either to Athens or to any quiet city. If you are going to do this, please write to me, so that I may fly to you if I possibly can. Whatever must be obtained from the co …
cicero_familiares · c. -48 · score 0.02
And perhaps this has turned out more welcome and opportune for you; for since I could not do it brilliantly, the first course was not to touch the subject at all, the second to do it as sparingly as possible. But still I did restrain myself: I diminished much, removed much, and did not even include a great deal. Just a …
cicero_familiares · c. -45 · score 0.02
If you and Tullia are well, I am glad. Terentia has been somewhat unwell, but I know for certain she has now recovered. Everything else at your house is quite well. Although at no time should I have given you reason to suspect that I was urging you to do something for party reasons rather than for your own sake, now es …
cicero_familiares · c. -45 · score 0.02
You can well believe that your authority has always carried weight with me in every matter, but especially in this business above all. When Gaius Marcellus, my brother who loves me most dearly, not only gave me advice but also besought me with prayers, he could not persuade me until it was accomplished by your letters …
cicero_familiares · c. -50 · score 0.01
Your supplications did not torment us for long, but they did torment us keenly. For we had run into a difficult knot: Curio, who is most eager to serve you, and from whom by every means days for holding assemblies were being taken away, said he could in no way allow supplications to be decreed, lest it seem that what h …
cicero_familiares · c. -48 · score 0.01
Forgive my fear and pity the times for the fact that the book was not returned to you more quickly. My son, as I hear, was alarmed, and not without reason -- if the book had gone out, since it matters not so much in what spirit something is written as in what spirit it is received -- lest the matter do me harm stupidly …
cicero_familiares · c. -43 · score 0.01
When this was reported to me, I immediately sent five cohorts ahead to Pollentia and directed my own march there. My garrison reached Pollentia an hour before Trebellius with his cavalry. I was very pleased indeed, for I think victory depends on this ****. They had come to hope, because they thought Plancus's four legi …
cicero_familiares · c. -43 · score 0.01
I have been informed by my agents that you received these reports with restraint and judged that they should not be rashly believed. These things are, as they ought to be, most welcome to me; for I also remember those earlier actions that proceeded from your goodwill toward enhancing and adorning my dignity, which will …
cicero_familiares · c. -50 · score 0.01
Certain men had voted to decree them who neither *** nor wished to have the matter settled, the Domitii and the Scipiones. When these men tried to provoke a veto by their interruptions, Curio replied most wittily that he was all the more willing not to veto since he saw that some who were voting for the decree did not …
cicero_familiares · c. -56 · score 0.01
If you are well, I am glad, and I am well. I have made no progress yet regarding your Dionysius, and all the less because the Dalmatian cold, which drove me from there, has chilled me even here; but I shall not stop until I dig him out eventually. Yet you impose every hard task upon me. You wrote me something about the …
cicero_familiares · c. -43 · score 0.01
The poor people of Parma...
cicero_familiares · c. -43 · score 0.01
If you are well, I am glad, and I am well. Know that I have set out for Syria to join the generals Lucius Murcus and Quintus Crispus. These brave men and excellent citizens, after they heard what was happening in Rome, handed over their armies to me and are joining me in administering the republic with the bravest spir …
cicero_familiares · c. -43 · score 0.01
I sent a copy of his letter to Titius; all the originals, both those I trusted and those I thought should not be trusted, I shall give to Laevus Cispius to deliver, as he was present at all these events. In addition, when Lepidus addressed the troops, his soldiers, worthless in themselves and corrupted by their officer …
cicero_familiares · c. -43 · score 0.01
A letter from you has been delivered to me, a duplicate of the one my couriers brought. I consider that I owe you so much that it is hard to repay. I have written to you about what is happening here. Antonius is on the march, heading for Lepidus; he has not even abandoned hope of Plancus yet, as I noticed from his note …
cicero_familiares · c. -47 · score 0.01
Now, to return to public affairs, please write back what is happening in Spain. I swear I am worried; I would rather have the old and merciful master than try out a new and cruel one. You know how foolish Gnaeus is; you know how he thinks cruelty is virtue; you know how he always thinks we are laughing at him. I fear h …
cicero_familiares · c. -43 · score 0.01
I would be ashamed of the inconsistency of my letters, if these things did not depend on the fickleness of others. I did everything I could so that, with Lepidus joined to me, I might resist the traitors with less anxiety on your part in defending the republic. I agreed to everything he asked and volunteered more besid …
cicero_familiares · c. -49 · score 0.01
If you are well, I am glad. For I am yours by use but our friend Atticus's by ownership. So the profit is yours, the legal title is his -- though if he should advertise this property for sale among the old buyers' club, he would not get very much. But how valuable is that boast of ours, that whatever we are, whatever w …
cicero_familiares · c. -56 · score 0.01
If you are well, I am glad, and I am well. If you maintain your custom in protecting your clients, Publius Vatinius has come as a client who wishes his case to be pleaded on his behalf. You will not, I think, reject in the matter of an honor the man you took on when he was in danger. And whom should I rather adopt or i …
cicero_familiares · c. -45 · score 0.01
I was compelled to carry him into the city in the same litter in which I myself had been carried, and by my own litter-bearers, and there, with such resources as were available in Athens, I saw to it that a sufficiently grand funeral was arranged for him. I was unable to obtain from the Athenians a burial place within …
cicero_familiares · c. -50 · score 0.01
Would that I had been in Spain at that time rather than at Formiae, when you set out for Pompey! If only Appius Claudius had been on that side instead of Gaius Curio, whose friendship gradually drew me into this ruinous cause; for I realize that anger and passion have robbed me of good judgment. And you, when I came to …
cicero_familiares · c. -43 · score 0.01
I no longer offer you thanks; for the man whom I can scarcely repay in deed, the situation does not permit me to satisfy with words. I want you to pay attention to what is at hand; for with your wisdom, nothing will escape you if you read my letters carefully. I could not pursue Antonius immediately for these reasons, …
cicero_familiares · c. -43 · score 0.01
If you are well, I am glad, and I am well. When I heard that Antonius with his forces, having sent Lucius Antonius ahead with part of the cavalry, was coming into my province, I moved my army from the camp at the confluence of the Rhone and began to march against them. I came by forced marches to Forum Voconii and pitc …
cicero_familiares · c. -47 · score 0.01
If you are well, I am glad. By Hercules, there is nothing I do more gladly in this time abroad than write to you; for I seem to be speaking and joking with you in person, and this does not happen through "Catian spectra" -- in return for which I shall throw so many rustic Stoics at you in my next letter that you will s …