§4.13.4reliquum est, ut consoler et adferam rationes, quibus te a molestiis coner abducere.
It remains for me to console you and to bring forward reasons by which I may try to draw you away from your troubles.
at ea quidem facultas vel tui vel alterius consolandi in te summa est, si umquam in ullo fuit.
But indeed that ability of consoling either yourself or another is greatest in you, if it ever was in anyone.
itaque eam partem, quae ab exquisita quadam ratione et doctrina proficiscitur, non attingam, tibi totam relinquam.
Therefore, I will not touch upon that part which proceeds from a certain exquisite reason and learning; I will leave it entirely to you.
quid sit forti et sapienti homine dignum, quid gravitas, quid altitudo animi, quid acta tua vita, quid studia, quid artes, quibus a pueritia floruisti, a te flagitent, tu videbis; ego, quod intellegere et sentire, quia sum Romae et quia curo attendoque, possum, id tibi adfirmo, te in istis molestiis, in quibus es hoc tempore, non diutius futurum, in iis autem, in quibus etiam nos sumus, fortasse semper fore.
What is worthy of a brave and wise man, and what your dignity, what your loftiness of mind, what your past life, what your studies, what the arts in which you have flourished since boyhood, demand of you, you yourself will see; I, for my part, affirm to you that which I am able to understand and feel because I am in Rome and because I care and pay attention: that you will not remain much longer in those troubles in which you are at this time, but that you will perhaps always remain in those in which we also are.
§4.13.5videor mihi perspicere primum ipsius animum, qui plurimum potest, propensum ad salutem tuam.
I seem to myself to perceive, first of all, the mind of the man himself who has the most power, inclined towards your restoration.
non scribo hoc temere; quo minus familiaris sum, hoc sum ad investigandum curiosior.
I do not write this rashly; the less intimate I am, the more inquisitive I am in investigating.
quo facilius, quibus est iratior, respondere tristius possit, hoc est adhuc tardior ad te molestia liberandum; familiares vero eius, et ii quidem, qui illi iucundissimi sunt mirabiliter de te et loquuntur et sentiunt.
In order that he may more easily give a harsher answer to those with whom he is more angry, he is all the slower up to now in freeing you from your trouble; indeed his intimates, and especially those who are most pleasing to him, both speak and feel wonderfully well concerning you.
accedit eodem vulgi voluntas vel potius consensus omnium.
To this is added the goodwill of the common people, or rather the consensus of everyone.
etiam illa, quae minimum nunc quidem potest, sed possit necessest, res publica, quascumque viris habebit, ab iis ipsis, a quibus tenetur, de te propediem, mihi crede, impetrabit.
Even the republic, which indeed now has the least power, but must have power in future, whatever strength it will possess, will very soon, believe me, obtain your restoration from those very men by whom it is held.
§4.13.6redeo igitur ad id, ut iam tibi etiam pollicear aliquid, quod primo omiseram.
I return, therefore, to this, that I may now even promise you something, which at first I had omitted.
nam et complectar eius familiarissimos, qui me admodum diligunt multumque mecum sunt, et in ipsius consuetudinem, quam adhuc meus pudor mihi clausit, insinuabo et certe omnis vias persequar, quibus putabo ad id, quod volumus, pervenire posse.
For I will both embrace his closest friends, who love me exceedingly and are much with me, and I will introduce myself into familiarity with the man himself, which hitherto my modesty has closed to me, and I will certainly pursue all ways by which I think we can arrive at that which we want.
in hoc toto genere plura faciam quam scribere audeo.
In this whole matter I will do more things than I dare to write.
cetera, quae tibi a multis prompta esse certo scio, a me sunt paratissima.
Other things, which I know for certain are ready for you from many, are most fully prepared on my part.
nihil in re familiari ni ea est, quod ego meum malim esse quam tuum.
There is nothing in my private property—if indeed there is any—which I would prefer to be mine rather than yours.
hac de re et de hoc genere toto hoc scribo parcius, quod te id, quod ipse confido, sperare malo, te esse usurum tuis
On this matter and on this whole subject I write the more sparingly for this reason: that I prefer you to hope for that which I myself trust, namely, that you will make use of your own resources.
§4.13.7extremum illud est, ut te orem et obsecrem, animo ut maximo sis nec ea solum memineris, quae ab aliis magnis viris accepisti, sed illa etiam, quae ipse ingenio studioque peperisti.
The last thing is that I beg and beseech you to be of the greatest courage, and not only to remember those things which you received from other great men, but also those which you yourself produced by your talent and study.
quae si conliges, et sperabis omnia optime et quae accident, qualiacumque erunt, sapienter feres.
If you collect these, you will both hope for everything in the best way and bear whatever happens, of what kind soever it shall be, wisely.
sed haec tu melius vel optime omnium; ego, quae pertinere ad te intellegam, studiosissime omnia diligentissimeque curabo tuorumque tristissimo meo tempore meritorum erga me memoriam conservabo.
But you know these things better, or rather best of all; I, for my part, will care for all things which I understand to pertain to you with the greatest zeal and diligence, and I will preserve the memory of your services towards me in my saddest time.