§13.20.1a Caesare litteras accepi consolatorias datas pridie Kal. Maias Hispali.
I received a letter of condolence from Caesar, dated the day before the Kalends of May at Hispalis.
de urbe augenda quid sit promulgatum non intellexi.
As to what has been promulgated about extending the city, I did not understand.
id scire sane velim.
I would certainly like to know that.
Torquato nostra officia grata esse facile patior eaque augere non desinam.
I am glad that our services are pleasing to Torquatus, and I shall not cease to increase them.
§13.20.2ad Ligarianam de uxore Tuberonis et privigna neque possum iam addere (est enim pervulgata) neque Tuberonem volo offendere; mirifice est enim φιλαίτιοσ.
Regarding the speech on behalf of Ligarius, I can no longer add anything about Tubero's wife and stepdaughter (for it is already widely published), nor do I wish to offend Tubero; for he is wonderfully φιλαίτιοσ.
theatrum quidem sane bellum habuisti. §13.20.3ego etsi hoc loco facillime sustentor tamen te videre cupio.
Indeed, you had a very fine "theatre." Although I am very comfortably supported in this place, yet I desire to see you.
itaque ut constitui adero.
Therefore, I will be there as I have decided.
fratrem credo a te esse conventum.
I believe my brother has been met by you.
scire igitur studeo quid egeris.
I am therefore eager to know what you have done.
§13.20.4de fama nihil sane laboro; etsi scripseram ad te tunc stulte
"nihil melius"
; curandum enim non est.
About reputation I care nothing at all; although I had written to you then foolishly "nothing is better"; for it is not to be cared for.
atque hoc
"in omni vita sua quemque a recta conscientia traversum unguem non oportet discedere"
viden quam φιλοσόφωσ? an tu nos frustra existimas haec in manibus habere? δεδῆχθαι te eo nollem, quod nihil erat.
And this saying, "in all one's life, one must not depart a hair's breadth from a right conscience," do you see how φιλοσόφωσ? Or do you think that we have these books in our hands in vain? I would not have wished you to have been pained by that, because it was nothing.
redeo enim rursus eodem.
For I return again to the same point.
quicquamne me putas curare †in toto,† nisi ut ei ne desim? id ago scilicet ut iudicia videar tenere.
Do you think I care about anything at all, except that I should not fail him? My aim, of course, is that I may seem to maintain his good opinion.
"μὴ γὰρ αὐτοῖσ"
vellem tam domestica ferre possem quam ista contemnere.
"μὴ γὰρ αὐτοῖσ." I wish I could bear domestic troubles as easily as I can despise those public matters.
putas autem me voluisse aliquid quod perfectum non sit? non licet scilicet sententiam suam.
But do you think I wanted something that is not perfect? Of course, one is not allowed [to assert] one's opinion.
sed tamen quae tum acta sunt non possum non probare et tamen non curare pulchre possum, sicuti facio.
But yet, what was done then I cannot but approve, and yet I can easily not care about it, just as I do.
sed nimium multa de nugis.
But too many words about trifles.