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Cicero · Letters to Atticus §13.43.1

Welcome of Postponement and Plans to Meet Atticus

Passage 373 of 461 · Latin

Summary

Cicero welcomes the postponement of the date and praises Atticus's kindness in sending him the news from the games, stating that he will catch up two days late after attending to business in Rome.

§13.43.1ego vero utar prorogatione diei, tuque humanissime fecisti qui me certiorem feceris atque ita ut eo tempore acciperem litteras quo non exspectarem tuque ut ab ludis scriberes.
I indeed shall avail myself of the postponement of the day, and you acted most kindly in informing me, and that in such a way that I received the letter at a time when I was not expecting it, and that you wrote from the games.
sunt omnino mihi quaedam agenda Romae sed consequemur biduo post.
To be sure, there are certain things for me to do in Rome, but I shall catch up two days later.

Notes

  1. §13.43.1humanissime fecisti qui me certiorem feceris — The relative clause `qui... feceris`, containing the perfect subjunctive `feceris`, expresses the cause or ground ('in that you informed me') for the main clause expression `humanissime fecisti` ('you acted most kindly').
  2. §13.43.1atque ita ut eo tempore acciperem... tuque ut... scriberes — Two imperfect subjunctive clauses (`acciperem` and `scriberes`), introduced by `ut` and qualified by `ita`, are coordinated to describe the specific result or manner of the preceding kind action of informing Cicero.
  3. §13.43.1consequemur — The first-person plural future is used here as an 'authorial plural' (or plural of modesty) to refer to Cicero's own individual action ('I shall catch up/arrive').

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Cicero, Letters to Atticus §13.43.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi057.humanitext-lat1:13.43.1

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