§14.10.1itane vero? hoc meus et tuus Brutus egit ut Lanuvi esset, ut Trebonius itineribus deviis proficisceretur in provinciam, ut omnia facta, scripta, dicta, promissa, cogitata Caesaris plus valerent quam si ipse viveret? meministine me clamare illo ipso primo Capitolino die debere senatum in Capitolium a praetoribus vocari? di immortales, quae tum opera effici potuerunt laetantibus omnibus bonis, etiam sat bonis, fractis latronibus! Liberalia tu accusas.
Is it really so? Did my and your Brutus bring it about that he should be at Lanuvium, that Trebonius should set out for his province by roundabout routes, that all the deeds, writings, sayings, promises, and thoughts of Caesar should have more force than if he himself were alive? Do you remember my crying out on that very first day on the Capitol that the senate ought to be summoned to the Capitol by the praetors? Immortal gods, what things could have been accomplished then, when all good men, and even those who were good enough, were rejoicing, and the robbers were crushed! You find fault with the Liberalia.
quid fieri tum potuit? iam pridem perieramus.
What could have been done then? We had already perished long before.
meministine te clamare causam perisse si funere elatus esset? at ille etiam in foro combustus laudatusque miserabiliter servique et egentes in tecta nostra cum facibus immissi.
Do you remember your crying out that our cause was lost if he were carried out with a funeral? And yet he was even burned in the Forum and lamented miserably, and slaves and paupers were sent against our homes with torches.
quae deinde? ut audeant dicere,
"tune contra Caesaris nutum?"
haec et talia ferre non possum.
What followed? So that they dare to say, "Would you act against Caesar's will?" I cannot bear these things and the like.
itaque
"γῆν πρὸ γῆσ"
cogito; tua tamen ὑπηνέμιοσ. §14.10.2nausea iamne plane abiit? mihi quidem ex tuis litteris coniectanti ita videbatur.
Therefore I am thinking of "land before land"; yet yours is "sheltered from the wind." Has your nausea quite gone now? To me indeed, guessing from your letter, it seemed so.
redeo ad Tebassos, Scaevas, Fangones.
I return to the Tebassi, the Scaevas, and the Fangones.
hos tu existimas confidere se illa habituros stantibus nobis? in quibus plus virtutis putarunt quam experti sunt.
Do you think these men trust that they will hold those properties while we remain standing? In us they thought there was more courage than they have experienced.
pacis isti scilicet amatores et non latrocini auctores. at ego, cum tibi de Curtilio scripsi Sextilianoque fundo, scripsi de Censorino, de Messalla, de Planco, de Postumo, de genere toto.
Those men, of course, are "lovers of peace" and not "promoters of banditry." But I, when I wrote to you about Curtilius and the Sextilian estate, wrote about Censorinus, Messalla, Plancus, Postumus, and the whole class of them.
melius fuit perisse illo interfecto, quod numquam accidisset, quam haec videre.
It would have been better to perish when he was killed—which would never have happened—than to see these things.
§14.10.3Octavius Neapolim venit xiiii Kal.
Octavius arrived at Naples on the 14th before the Kalends.
ibi eum Balbus mane postridie eodemque die mecum in Cumano, illum hereditatem aditurum.
There Balbus met him early the next morning, and on the same day he was with me in my villa at Cumae, saying that he was going to enter upon the inheritance.
sed, ut scribis, †ῤιξόθεμιν† magnam cum Antonio.
But, as you write, there is †a great quarrel† with Antony.
Buthrotia mihi tua res est, ut debet, eritque curae.
Your Buthrotian business is, as it ought to be, a matter of concern to me, and will be cared for.
quod quaeris, iamne ad centena Cluvianum, adventare videtur.
As to your question whether the Cluvian property is already up to a hundred thousand, it seems to be approaching it.
scilicet primo anno L_X_X_X_ detersimus.
Indeed, in the first year we cleared eighty thousand.
§14.10.4Quintus pater ad me gravia de filio, maxime quod matri nunc indulgeat cui antea bene merenti fuerit inimicus.
Quintus the father writes to me grievous complaints about his son, especially because he is now indulgent to his mother, to whom previously, well-deserving as she was, he was hostile.
ardentis in eum litteras ad me misit.
He sent me a fiery letter against him.
ille autem quid agat si scis nequedum Roma es profectus, scribas ad me velim et hercule si quid aliud.
But if you know what he is doing, and have not yet set out from Rome, I should like you to write to me, and indeed anything else there may be.
vehementer delector tuis litteris.
I am exceedingly delighted by your letters.