§10.13.1epistula tua gratissima fuit meae Tulliae et me hercule mihi.
Your letter was most welcome to my Tullia and, by Hercules, to myself.
semper speculam aliquam adferunt tuae litterae.
Your letters always bring some gleam of hope.
scribes igitur ac si quid ad spem poteris ne dimiseris.
Write, therefore, and if you can write anything to encourage hope, do not let it slip.
tu Antoni leones pertimescas cave.
Mind you do not fear Antony's lions.
nihil est illo homine iucundius.
Nothing is more ridiculous than that man.
attende πρᾶξιν πολιτικοῦ. evocavit litteris e municipiis decem primos et iiiiviros.
Observe the "conduct of a statesman." He summoned by letter the ten leading men and the Board of Four from the municipalities.
venerunt ad villam eius mane.
They came to his villa early in the morning.
primum dormiit ad h. Iii, deinde, cum esset nuntiatum venisse Neapolitanos et Cumanos (his enim est Caesar iratus), postridie redire iussit; lavari se velle et περὶ. hoc here effecit.
First he slept until the third hour; then, when it was announced that the people of Neapolis and Cumae had arrived (for Caesar is angry with them), he ordered them to return the next day, saying that he wanted to bathe, and "about..." This is what he did yesterday.
hodie autem in Aenariam transire constituit ut exsulibus reditum polliceretur.
Today, however, he has decided to cross over to Aenaria to promise return to the exiles.
sed haec omittamus, de nobis aliquid agamus.
But let us leave these things aside, and let us do something about our own affairs.
§10.13.2ab Axio accepi litteras.
I received a letter from Axius.
de Tirone gratum.
What he wrote about Tiro was gratifying.
Vettienum diligo.
I am fond of Vettienus.
Vestorio reddidi.
I delivered the letter to Vestorius.
Servius pr. Nonas Maias Menturnis mansisse dicitur, hodie in Liternino mansurus apud C. Marcellum.
Servius is said to have stayed at Minturnae on the day before the Nones of May, and is to stay today at the Liternian estate with Gaius Marcellus.
cras igitur nos mature videbit mihique dabit argumentum ad te epistulae.
Tomorrow, therefore, he will see us early and will give me a subject for a letter to you.
iam enim non reperio quod tibi scribam.
For by now I cannot find anything to write to you.
illud admiror quod Antonius ad me ne nuntium quidem, cum praesertim me valde observarit.
I wonder at this, that Antony has not sent even a messenger to me, especially since he has always paid me great respect.
videlicet aliquid atrocius de me imperatum est.
Evidently some harsher order has been given concerning me.
coram negare mihi non vult, quod ego nec rogaturus eram nec, si impetrassem, crediturus.
He does not want to refuse me to my face, which I was neither going to ask for nor, if I had obtained it, going to believe.
nos tamen aliquid excogitabimus.
We, however, will think of something.
§10.13.3tu, quaeso, si quid in Hispaniis.
Please, if there is any news in the Spains.
iam enim poterit audiri et omnes ita exspectant ut, si recte fuerit, nihil negoti futurum putent.
For by now it will be possible to hear, and everyone is waiting so expectantly that, if all is well there, they think there will be no more trouble.
ego autem nec retentis iis confectam rem puto neque amissis desperatam.
For my part, however, I do not think the business finished if they are held, nor desperate if they are lost.
Silium et Ocellam et ceteros credo retardatos.
Silius and Ocella and the rest are, I believe, delayed.
te quoque a Curione impediri video.
I see that you too are being hindered by Curio.
etsi, ut opinor, habes † ΕΚΙΤΑΟΝΟΝ.
Although, as I think, you have †ΕΚΙΤΑΟΝΟΝ†.