§10.5.1de tota mea cogitatione scripsi ad te antea satis, ut mihi visus sum, diligenter.
About my whole plan I have written to you before, as it seemed to me, with sufficient care.
de die nihil sane potest scribi certi praeter hoc, non ante lunam novam.
Concerning the day, indeed, nothing certain can be written except this, not before the new moon.
§10.5.2Curionis sermo postridie eandem habuit fere summam, nisi quod apertius significavit se harum rerum exitum non videre.
Curio's conversation on the following day had almost the same substance, except that he indicated more openly that he did not see the outcome of these matters.
quod mihi mandas de Quinto regendo,
"Ἀρκαδίαν"
.
As to what you entrust to me about managing Quintus, that is "Ἀρκαδίαν".
tamen nihil praetermittam.
Nevertheless, I will neglect nothing.
atque utinam tu—, sed molestior non ero.
And I wish that you—, but I will not be more troublesome.
epistulam ad Vestorium statim detuli, ac valde requirere solebat.
I delivered the letter to Vestorius immediately, and he was accustomed to ask for it eagerly.
§10.5.3Commodius tecum Vettienus est locutus quam ad me scripserat.
Vettienus spoke more agreeably with you than he had written to me.
sed mirari satis hominis neglegentiam non queo.
But I cannot wonder enough at the man's negligence.
cum enim mihi Philotimus dixisset se HS L_ emere de Canuleio deversorium illud posse, minoris etiam empturum si Vettienum rogassem, rogavi ut, si quid posset, ex ea summa detraheret.
For when Philotimus had told me that he could buy that lodging-place from Canuleius for fifty thousand sesterces, and would buy it for even less if I asked Vettienus, I asked him to deduct something from that sum if he could.
promisit.
He promised.
ad me nuper se HS X_X_X_ emisse; ut scriberem cui vellem addici; diem pecuniae Idus Novembr. esse.
Recently he wrote to me that he had bought it for thirty thousand sesterces; that I should write to whom I wished it to be assigned; and that the day for payment was the Ides of November.
rescripsi ei stomachosius cum ioco tamen familiari.
I wrote back to him rather crossly, yet with a friendly jest.
nunc quoniam agit liberaliter, nihil accuso hominem scripsique ad eum me a te certiorem esse factum.
Now, since he is acting generously, I do not accuse the man at all, and I have written to him that I was informed by you.
tu de tuo itinere quid et quando cogites velim me certiorem facias.
I should like you to inform me what and when you are thinking about your journey.
A. d. xv K. Maias.
April 17th.