§1.5b.1hic quae agantur quaeque acta sint, ea te et litteris multorum et nuntiis cognosse arbitror; quae autem posita sunt in coniectura quaeque videntur fore, ea puto tibi a me scribi oportere.
I think that you have learned what is being done and what has been done here both from the letters of many people and from messengers; but as for those things which depend on conjecture and which seem likely to happen, I think they ought to be written to you by me.
postea quam Pompeius et apud populum a. d. viii Idus Februarias, quom pro Milone diceret, clamore convicioque iactatus est in senatuque a Catone aspere et acerbe inimicorum magno silentio est accusatus, visus est mihi vehementer esse perturbatus.
After Pompey was harassed by shouting and abuse before the people on the 6th of February (the eighth day before the Ides of February), when he was speaking on behalf of Milo, and was accused harshly and bitterly by Cato in the senate amidst the great silence of his enemies, he seemed to me to be violently disturbed.
itaque Alexandrina causa, quae nobis adhuc integra est (nihil enim tibi detraxit senatus nisi id, quod per eandem religionem dari alteri non potest), videtur ab illo plane esse deposita.
And so the Alexandrian cause, which is still intact for us (for the senate has detracted nothing from you except that which, owing to the same religious obstacle, cannot be given to another), seems to have been completely abandoned by him.
§1.5b.2nunc id speramus idque molimur, ut rex, cum intellegat sese, quod cogitabat, ut a Pompeio reducatur, adsequi non posse et, nisi per te sit restitutus, desertum se atque abiectum fore, proficiscatur ad te; quod sine ulla dubitatione, si Pompeius paulum modo ostenderit sibi placere, faciet; sed nosti hominis tarditatem et taciturnitatem.
Now we hope for this and are working for this: that the king, when he understands that he cannot attain what he was thinking of, namely, being restored by Pompey, and that, unless he is restored by you, he will be abandoned and cast aside, should set out to you; which he will do without any doubt, if Pompey shows even in the slightest degree that it pleases him; but you know the slowness and taciturnity of the man.
nos tamen nihil, quod ad eam rem pertineat, praetermittimus.
We, however, are omitting nothing that relates to that matter.
ceteris iniuriis, quae propositae sunt a Catone, facile, ut spero, resistemus.
To the other injustices which have been proposed by Cato, we shall easily, as I hope, offer resistance.
Amicum ex consularibus neminem tibi esse video praeter Hortensium et Lucullum; ceteri sunt partim obscurius iniqui, partim non dissimulanter irati.
I see that you have no friend among the consulars except Hortensius and Lucullum; the rest are partly hostile in a rather covert way, partly angry without disguise.
tu fac animo forti magnoque sis speresque fore ut fracto impetu levissimi hominis tuam pristinam dignitatem et gloriam consequare.
Do make sure that you are of a brave and great spirit, and hope that, when the onset of that most frivolous man is broken, you will recover your former dignity and glory.