§13.31.1v Kal. mane accepi a Demea litteras pridie datas ex quibus aut hodie aut cras te exspectare deberem.
On the morning of the 27th of June, I received a letter from Demeas dated yesterday, from which I ought to expect you either today or tomorrow.
sed, ut opinor, idem ego qui exspecto tuum adventum morabor te.
But, as I think, I myself, who am expecting your arrival, will delay you.
non enim puto tam expeditum Faberianum negotium futurum, etiam si est futurum ut non habeat aliquid morae. §13.31.2cum poteris igitur.
For I do not think the Faberius business will be so easily dispatched, even if it is to be that it has no delay. When you can, then.
quoniam etiamnum abes, Dicaearchi quos scribis libros sane velim mi mittas, addas etiam καταβάσεωσ. §13.31.3de epistula ad Caesarem κέκρικα; atque id ipsum quod isti aiunt illum scribere, se nisi constitutis rebus non iturum in Parthos, idem ego suadebam in illa epistula.
Since you are still away, I should indeed like you to send me the books of Dicaearchus which you write about, and add also the *Katabasis*. About the letter to Caesar I have made up my mind (κέκρικα); and that very thing which they say he writes, that he will not go against the Parthians unless affairs are settled, I was advising in that letter.
utrum liberet facere posse auctore me.
That with me as his backer he could do whichever he pleased.
hoc enim ille exspectat videlicet neque est facturus quicquam nisi de meo consilio.
For he is waiting for this, it seems, and is not going to do anything except on my advice.
obsecro abiciamus ista et semiliberi saltem simus; quod adsequemur et tacendo et latendo. §13.31.4sed adgredere Othonem, ut scribis.
I beg you, let us throw away those things and at least be half-free; which we shall attain both by keeping silent and by keeping out of sight. But approach Otho, as you write.
confice, mi Attice, istam rem.
Settle that business, my dear Atticus.
nihil enim aliud reperio ubi et in foro non sim et tecum esse possim.
For I find no other place where I can both be absent from the Forum and be with you.
quanti autem, hoc mihi venit in mentem.
But at what price? This comes to my mind.
C. Albanius proximus est vicinus.
C. Albanius is the nearest neighbor.
is ciↃ iugerum de M. Pilio emit, ut mea memoria est, HS c_x_v_.
He bought a thousand iugera from M. Pilius, as my memory is, for 115,000 sesterces.
omnia scilicet nunc minoris.
Everything is of course cheaper now.
sed accedit cupiditas, in qua praeter Othonem non puto nos ullum adversarium habituros.
But eagerness is added, in which I do not think we shall have any rival besides Otho.
sed eum ipsum tu poteris movere, facilius etiam si Canum haberes.
But you will be able to move him himself, even more easily if you had Canus.
o gulam insulsam! pudet me patris.
Oh, what tasteless greed! I am ashamed of his father.
rescribes si quid voles.
Write back if you wish anything.