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Cicero · Letters to Atticus §12.37A.1

News of Pompey's Sons and Request for the Shrine Site

Passage 310 of 461 · Latin

Summary

Cicero mentions news from Hirtius regarding the movements of Pompey's sons and a rumor of Caninius's shipwreck, while urging Atticus once again to secure a site for the shrine for his deceased daughter.

§12.37A.1Hirtius ad me scripsit Sex. Pompeium Corduba exisse et fugisse in Hispaniam citeriorem, Gnaeum fugisse nescio quo; neque enim curo.
Hirtius has written to me that Sextus Pompeius has left Corduba and fled into Nearer Spain, and that Gnaeus has fled to some unknown place; for indeed I do not care.
nihil praeterea novi.
There is no other news.
litteras Narbone dedit xiiii Kal. Maias.
He sent the letter from Narbo on the fourteenth day before the Kalends of May.
tu mihi de Canini naufragio quasi dubia misisti.
You wrote to me about Caninius's shipwreck as if it were doubtful.
scribes igitur si quid erit certius.
Write to me, therefore, if there is anything more certain.
quod me a maestitia avocas, multum levaris si locum fano dederis.
As for your distracting me from my sadness, you will be greatly relieved if you give me a site for the shrine.
multa mihi εἰς ἀποθέωσιν in mentem veniunt, sed loco valde opus est.
Many things come to my mind for the apotheosis, but there is a great need for a site.
qua re etiam Othonem vide.
Therefore, see Otho as well.

Notes

  1. §12.37A.1nescio quo — A contraction of an indirect question `nescio quo [fugit]` ("I do not know where he fled"), here functioning as an indefinite adverb meaning "to some unknown place."
  2. §12.37A.1novi — The neuter genitive singular of the adjective `novus`. It functions as a partitive genitive qualifying the pronoun `nihil` ("nothing of new", i.e., "no news").
  3. §12.37A.1quod me a maestitia avocas — The conjunction `quod` introduces an explanatory clause of respect ("as to the fact that you distract me from my sadness"), establishing the topic for the main clause.
  4. §12.37A.1levaris — Second-person singular present indicative passive of `levo` (or a syncopated future passive `levaberis`). The subject is Atticus, and the passive voice implies that he will be "relieved" or "eased" of his worry or effort to comfort Cicero if he secures the site for the shrine.
  5. §12.37A.1loco — Ablative of means/instrument required by the impersonal construction `opus est` ("there is need of").

Cite this passage

Cicero, Letters to Atticus §12.37A.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi057.humanitext-lat1:12.37A.1

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