§8.9.1'sic tu,' inquis, ' Hirrum tractasti?' immo, si scias quam facile, quam ne contentionis quidem minimae fuerit, pudeat te ausum illum umquam esse incedere tamquam tuum competitorem.
'Is that how you,' you say, 'treated Hirrus?' Nay, if you knew how easily, and how there was not even the slightest struggle, you would be ashamed that he ever dared to parade himself as your competitor.
post repulsam vero risus facit; civem bonum ludit et contra Caesarem sententias dicit, exspectationem corripit, †Curionem prorsus Curionem non mediocriter obiurgatus ac repulsa se mutavit.
But after his defeat, he makes himself a laughingstock; he plays the good citizen and gives opinions against Caesar, forestalls expectation, †[Curionem...] having been greatly rebuked, and has changed his character due to the defeat.
praeterea, qui numquam in foro apparuerit, non multum in iudiciis versatus sit, agit causas liberalis, sed raro post meridiem.
Furthermore, he who has never appeared in the forum, nor has been much engaged in the courts, conducts suits of liberty, but rarely after midday.
§8.9.2de provinciis quod tibi scripseram Idibus Sext. actum iri, interpellat iudicium Marcelli, consulis designati.
Regarding the provinces, which I had written to you would be treated on the Ides of August, the trial of Marcellus, the consul-elect, interrupts.
in Kal. res reiecta est; ne frequentiam quidem efficere potuerant.
The matter was postponed to the Kalends; they had not even been able to secure a quorum.
has litteras a. d. iiii Non. Septembris dedi, cum ad eam diem ne profligatum quidem quicquam erat.
I dispatched this letter on the fourth day before the Nones of September, up to which day not even anything was advanced towards a conclusion.
ut video, causa haec integra in proximum annum transferetur et, quantum divino, relinquendus tibi erit qui provinciam obtineat; nam non expeditur successio, quoniam Galliae, quae habent intercessorem, in eandem condicionem quam ceterae provinciae vocantur.
As I see, this case will be transferred entire into the next year, and as far as I divine, you will have to leave behind someone to hold the province; for the succession is not being settled, since the Gauls, which have a vetoer, are being summoned into the same condition as the other provinces.
hoc mihi non est dubium; quo tibi magis scripsi ut ad hunc eventum te parares.
This is not in doubt to me; for which reason I have written to you all the more to prepare yourself for this event.
§8.9.3fere litteris omnibus tibi de pantheris scripsi.
In almost every letter I have written to you about leopards.
turpe tibi erit Patiscum Curioni decem pantheras misisse, te non multis partibus pluris; quas ipsas Curio mihi et alias Africanas decem donavit, ne putes illum tantum praedia rustica dare scire.
It will be a disgrace to you that Patiscus has sent ten leopards to Curio, and you not many times more; which very ones Curio gave to me, and another ten African ones, lest you think that he knows only how to give country estates.
tu si modo memoria tenueris et Ciburatas arcessieris itemque in Pamphyliam litteras miseris (nam ibi pluris capi aiunt), quod voles efficies.
If you only keep it in mind and summon the Cibyratae, and likewise send a letter to Pamphylia (for they say more are caught there), you will achieve what you wish.
hoc vehementius laboro nunc, quod seorsus a conlega puto mihi omnia paranda.
I labor at this more vehemently now, because I think that all things must be prepared by me separately from my colleague.
amabo te, impera tibi hoc.
I entreat you, command this of yourself.
curare soles libenter, ut ego maiorem partem nihil curare.
You are accustomed to care willingly, as I for the most part care for nothing.
in hoc negotio nulla tua nisi loquendi cura est, hoc est imperandi et mandandi; nam simul atque erunt captae, qui alant eas et deportent habes eos, quos ad Sittianam syngrapham misi.
In this matter, there is no care of yours except of speaking, that is, of commanding and commissioning; for as soon as they are caught, you have those whom I sent for the Sittian bond to feed and transport them.
puto etiam, si ullam spem mihi litteris ostenderis, me isto missurum alios.
I think also, if you show me any hope in your letters, that I will send others to your parts.
§8.9.4M. Feridium, eq. R., amici mei filium, bonum et strenuum adulescentem, qui ad suum negotium istoc venit, tibi commendo et te rogo ut eum in tuorum numero habeas.
I commend to you Marcus Feridius, a Roman knight, the son of my friend, a good and active young man, who comes to your parts on his own business, and I ask you to have him in the number of your friends.
agros, quos fructuarios habent civitates, vult tuo beneficio, quod tibi facile et honestum factu est, immunis esse.
The lands which the states hold for revenue, he wishes to be exempt by your favor, which is easy and honorable for you to do.
gratos et bonos viros tibi obligaris.
You will bind grateful and good men to yourself.
§8.9.5nolo te putare Favonium a columnariis praeteritum; optimus quisque eum non fecit. †Pompeius tuus aperte Caesarem et provinciam tenere cum exercitu et consul; ipse tamen hanc sententiam dixit, nullum hoc tempore senatus consultum faciendum, Scipio hanc, ut K. Martiis de provinciis Galliis neu quid coniunctim referretur.
I do not wish you to think that Favonius was passed over by the column-haunters; all the best men did not vote for him. †Your Pompey openly [wishes] Caesar both to hold his province with his army and [to be] consul; yet he himself gave this opinion, that no decree of the senate should be made at this time; Scipio gave this, that on the Kalends of March, concerning the Gallic provinces, and nothing conjointly, reference should be made.
contristavit haec sententia Balbum Cornelium, et scio eum questum esse cum Scipione.
This opinion saddened Cornelius Balbus, and I know that he complained to Scipio.
Calidius in defensione sua fuit disertissimus, in accusatione satis frigidus.
Calidius in his own defense was most eloquent, in accusation quite cold.