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Cicero · Letters to Friends §13.42.1-13.42.2

Lucceius's Gratitude and Request for Aid against Bullis

Passage 337 of 413 · Latin

Summary

Cicero conveys Lucceius's gratitude for the recipient's promises and requests the recipient's further assistance, authority, and command to resolve the issue with the inhabitants of Bullis.

§13.42.1L. Lucceius, meus familiaris, hQmO omnium gratissimus, mirificas tibi apud me gratias egit, cum diceret omnia te cumulatissime et liberalissime procuratoribus suis pollicitum esse.
L. Lucceius, my close friend and the most grateful of all men, expressed extraordinary gratitude to you in my presence, saying that you had promised everything to his agents in the most abundant and generous manner.
Cum oratio tua tam ei grata fuerit, quam gratam rem ipsam existimas fore, cum, ut spero, quae pollicitus es feceris! omnino ostenderunt Bulliones sese Lucceio Pompei arbitratu satis facturos; §13.42.2sed vehementer opus est nobis et voluntatem et auctoritatem et imperium tuum accedere; quod ut facias te etiam atque etiam rogo.
Since your promise was so pleasing to him, how pleasing do you think the actual deed itself will be when, as I hope, you have performed what you promised! To be sure, the inhabitants of Bullis have shown that they will satisfy Lucceius in accordance with Pompey's arbitration; but we have vehement need of your goodwill, authority, and power to be added to this; and I ask you again and again to do so.
illudque mihi gratissimum est, quod ita sciunt Luccei procuratores et ita Lucceius ipse ex litteris tuis, quas ad eum misisti, intellexit, hominis nullius apud te auctoritatem aut gratiam,valere plus quam meam.
And this is most pleasing to me, that Lucceius's agents know, and Lucceius himself has understood from your letter which you sent to him, that the authority or influence of no man has more weight with you than mine.
id ut re experiatur iterum et saepius te rogo.
I ask you, once and repeatedly, to let him experience this in reality.

Notes

  1. 13.42.1hQmO — A scribal error for homo ("man", "person").
  2. 13.42.1Cum oratio tua tam ei grata fuerit, quam gratam rem ipsam existimas fore, cum, ut spero, quae pollicitus es feceris! — The first Cum expresses cause ("since") and takes the subjunctive perfect fuerit. The main verb is existimas, which governs the accusative-and-infinitive clause quam gratam rem ipsam... fore. The second cum expresses time ("when") and takes the future perfect feceris.
  3. 13.42.1Bulliones — Refers to the inhabitants of Bullis, a city in Illyria.
  4. 13.42.2vehementer opus est nobis et voluntatem et auctoritatem et imperium tuum accedere — The impersonal expression opus est ("there is need") takes the dative nobis and is accompanied by the accusative-and-infinitive clause et voluntatem... accedere functioning as the subject. The subject of accedere consists of voluntatem, auctoritatem, and imperium tuum.
  5. 13.42.2illudque mihi gratissimum est, quod... — illud anticipates the noun clause introduced by quod. Within the quod clause, the accusative-and-infinitive clause hominis nullius... valere... serves as the object of sciunt and intellexit.

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Cicero, Letters to Friends §13.42.1-13.42.2. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi056.humanitext-lat1:13.42.1-13.42.2

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