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Cicero · Letters to Friends §13.44.1

Renewed Recommendation of Oppius and Egnatius

Passage 339 of 413 · Latin

Summary

Cicero expresses gratitude for the recipient's attention to his recommendation and once again recommends Oppius and the absent Egnatius, asking the recipient to demonstrate his goodwill.

§13.44.1etsi ex tuis et ex L. Oppi, familiaris mei, litteris cognovi te memorem commendationi meae fuisse idque pro tua summa erga me benevolentia proque nostra necessitudine minime sum admiratus, tamen etiam atque etiam tibi L. Oppium praesentem et L. Egnati, mei familiarissimi, absentis negotia commendo.
Although I have learned from your letters and from those of my familiar friend Lucius Oppius that you have been mindful of my recommendation, and indeed, in view of your utmost goodwill toward me and our close relationship, I did not wonder at this at all, yet again and again I recommend to you Oppius who is present, and the business of my most intimate friend Lucius Egnatius who is absent.
tanta mihi cum eo necessitudo est familiaritasque ut, si mea res esset, non magis laborarem.
So great is my relationship and intimacy with him that, if it were my own affair, I would not labor any more.
quapropter gratissimum mihi feceris, si curaris ut is intellegat me a te tantum amari quantum ipse existimo.
Therefore, you will do me a most agreeable favor if you see to it that he understands that I am loved by you as much as I myself believe.
hoc mihi gratius facere nihil potes, idque ut facias vehementer te rogo.
You can do nothing more pleasing to me than this, and I earnestly ask you to do so.

Notes

  1. §13.44.1memorem commendationi meae — The adjective memor usually takes the genitive, but here it is used with the dative commendationi. This is a rare construction. Alternatively, it is sometimes interpreted as an archaic genitive form ending in -i instead of -ae.
  2. §13.44.1non magis laborarem — The main clause of a present counterfactual conditional using the imperfect subjunctive, corresponding to the protasis si mea res esset.
  3. §13.44.1curaris — A syncopated form of curaveris (future perfect indicative second person singular, or perfect subjunctive). The conditional clause si curaris corresponds to the future perfect feceris in the main clause, expressing a hypothetical future condition.

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Cicero, Letters to Friends §13.44.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi056.humanitext-lat1:13.44.1

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