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Cicero · Letters to Atticus §13.4.1

Material on the Ten Legates and Meeting with Brutus

Passage 333 of 461 · Latin

Summary

Cicero acknowledges receiving the material on the ten legates prepared by Atticus and shares his thoughts, addresses the issue of debtors and Piso, and expresses a strong desire to meet Atticus at his villa upon Brutus' arrival.

§13.4.1habeo munus a te elaboratum decem legatorum: et quidem de Tuditano idem puto.
I have received the work on the ten legates elaborately prepared by you; and indeed, I think the same regarding Tuditanus.
nam filius anno post quaestor fuit quam consul Mummius.
For his son was quaestor a year after Mummius was consul.
sed quoniam saepius de nominibus quaeris quid placeat, ego quoque tibi saepius respondeo placere.
But since you ask me so often what I would like regarding the debtors, I too answer you just as often that I am satisfied.
si quid poteris, cum Pisone conficies; Avius enim videtur in officio futurus.
If you can do anything, settle the matter with Piso; for Avius seems likely to do his duty.
velim ante possis, si minus, utique simul simus quom Brutus veniet in Tusculanum.
I should like you to be able to do so before; if not, at any rate let us be together when Brutus comes to his Tusculan villa.
magni interest mea una nos esse.
It is of great importance to me that we should be together.
scies autem qui dies is futurus sit, si puero negotium dederis ut quaerat.
You will know, however, what day that will be, if you give a boy the task of inquiring.

Notes

  1. 13.4.1anno post quaestor fuit quam consul Mummius — "anno" is an ablative of degree of difference modifying "post quam" (after). Literally: "he was quaestor one year after Mummius was consul."
  2. 13.4.1velim ante possis — "velim" is a present subjunctive of modest wish. It is followed directly by another present subjunctive "possis" without "ut", expressing the content of the wish.
  3. 13.4.1magi interest mea — The construction of the impersonal verb "interest" (it is of importance to). The degree of importance is expressed by the genitive of value "magni", and the person concerned is indicated by the feminine ablative singular of the possessive adjective "mea", instead of a genitive or accusative.

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Cicero, Letters to Atticus §13.4.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi057.humanitext-lat1:13.4.1

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