§10.22.1in te et in conlega omnis spes est dis adprobantibus.
All hope lies in you and in your colleague, with the gods' approval.
Concordia vestra, quae senatui declarata litteris vestris est, mirifice et senatus et cuncta civitas delectata est.
The senate and the entire state have been wonderfully delighted by your harmony, which was declared to the senate by your letter.
quod ad me scripseras de re agraria, si consultus senatus esset, ut quisque honorificentissimam de te sententiam dixisset, eam secutus esset; qui certe ego fuissem.
As for what you had written to me about the agrarian law, if the senate had been consulted, it would have followed the opinion of each one as they spoke most honorably of you; in which role I certainly would have been.
sed propter tarditatem sententiarum moramque rerum cum ea, quae consule bantur, ad exitum non pervenirent, commodissimum mihi Plancoque fratri visum est uti eo s. c.
But because of the slowness of opinions and the delay of business, since those matters which were being consulted did not reach an outcome, it seemed most convenient to me and to your brother Plancus to make use of that decree of the senate.
, quod ne nostro arbitratu componeretur, quis fuerit impedimento, arbitror te ex Planci litteris cognovisse.
As to who was a hindrance to its being drafted according to our own judgment, I believe you have learned from Plancus's letter.
§10.22.2sed sive in s. c. sive in ceteris rebus desideras aliquid, sic tibi persuade, tantam esse apud omnis bonos tui caritatem, ut nullum genus amplissimae dignitatis excogitari possit, quod tibi non paratum sit.
But whether in the decree of the senate or in other matters you miss anything, convince yourself of this: that so great is the affection for you among all good citizens that no kind of the most ample dignity can be devised which is not prepared for you.
Litteras tuas vehementer exspecto, et quidem talis qualis maxime opto.
I eagerly await your letter, and indeed one such as I most greatly desire.
vale.
Farewell.