§13.7.1Sestius apud me fuit et Theopompus pridie.
Sestius was at my place, and Theopompus too, yesterday.
venisse a Caesare narrabat litteras; hoc scribere, sibi certum esse Romae manere causamque eam ascribere quae erat in epistula nostra, ne se absente leges suae neglegerentur sicut esset neglecta sumptuaria (est εὔλογον idque eram suspicatus. sed istis mos gerendus est, nisi placet hanc ipsam sententiam nos persequi), et Lentulum cum Metella certe fecisse divortium.
He was reporting that a letter had come from Caesar; [that Caesar] wrote this: that he was resolved to remain in Rome, and assigned that very reason which was in my letter, lest in his absence his laws should be neglected, just as the sumptuary law had been neglected (it is reasonable, and I had suspected it; but we must humor them, unless we prefer to pursue this very opinion), and that Lentulus had certainly divorced Metella.
haec omnia tu melius.
All this you [know] better.
rescribes igitur quicquid voles, dum modo aliquid.
You will write back, therefore, whatever you wish, as long as [you write] something.
iam enim non reperio quid te rescripturum putem, nisi forte de Mustela aut si Silium videris
For now I do not find what I think you will write back about, unless perhaps about Mustela, or if you have seen Silius.