§12.20.1nondum videris perspicere quam me nec Antonius commovent nec quicquam iam eius modi possit commovere.
\nYou do not yet seem to perceive how neither Antony disturbs me, nor can anything of that kind disturb me now.
de Terentia autem scripsi ad te eis litteris quas dederam pridie.
As to Terentia, however, I wrote to you in that letter which I dispatched the day before.
quod me hortaris idque a ceteris desiderari scribis ut dissimulem me tam graviter dolere, possumne magis quam quom totos dies consumo in litteris? quod etsi non dissimulationis sed potius leniendi et sanandi animi causa facio, tamen si mihi minus proficio simulationi certe facio satis. §12.20.2minus multa ad te scripsi, quod exspectabam tuas litteras ad eas quas pridie dederam.
As to your exhorting me, and writing that it is desired by others, to dissemble that I grieve so heavily, can I do so more than when I spend entire days in literary study? And though I do this not for the sake of dissimulation, but rather for the sake of soothing and healing my mind, yet if I profit myself but little, I certainly satisfy the appearance.\n\nI have written less to you because I was expecting your letter in reply to that which I dispatched the day before.
exspectabam autem maxime de fano, non nihil etiam de Terentia.
Indeed, I was expecting it chiefly concerning the shrine, and in no small measure also concerning Terentia.
velim me facias certiorem proximis litteris Cn. Caepio Serviliae Claudi pater vivone patre suo naufragio perierit an mortuo, item Rutilia vivone C. Cotta filio suo mortua sit an mortuo.
I should like you to inform me in your next letter whether Gnaeus Caepio, the father of Claudius' wife Servilia, perished in a shipwreck while his father was still living, or after his death; likewise, whether Rutilia died while her son Gaius Cotta was living, or after his death.
pertinent ad eum librum quem de luctu minuendo scripsimus.
These details are relevant to that book which I wrote on diminishing grief.