§14.18.1saepius me iam agitas quod rem gestam Dolabellae nimis in caelum videar efferre.
You are already teasing me rather often because I seem to be extolling Dolabella's achievement too much to the skies.
ego autem, quamquam sane probo factum, tamen ut tanto opere laudarem adductus sum tuis et unis et alteris litteris.
But I, although I certainly approve of the deed, yet was led to praise it so greatly by your first and then second letter.
sed totum se a te abalienavit Dolabella ea de causa qua me quoque sibi inimicissimum reddidit.
But Dolabella has entirely alienated himself from you for the very reason by which he also made me most hostile to him.
o hominem impudentem! Kal.
O shameless man!
Ian. debuit, adhuc non solvit, praesertim cum se maximo aere alieno Faberi manu liberarit et opem ab Ope petierit.
On the Calends of January he owed, and has not yet paid, especially since he freed himself from a very great debt by the hand of Faberius and sought help from Ops.
licet enim iocari, ne me valde conturbatum putes.
For it is permitted to joke, lest you think I am greatly disturbed.
atque ego ad eum viii Idus litteras dederam bene mane, eodem autem die tuas litteras vesperi acceperam in Pompeiano sane celeriter tertio abs te die.
And indeed, I had sent a letter to him very early on the eighth day before the Ides, but on the same day in the evening I received your letter in my Pompeian villa, indeed very quickly on the third day from you.
sed, ut ad te eo ipso die scripseram, satis aculeatas ad Dolabellam litteras dedi; quae si nihil profecerint, puto fore ut me praesentem non sustineat
But, as I had written to you on that very day, I sent a sufficiently sharp letter to Dolabella; which, if it produces nothing, I think he will not endure me in his presence.
§14.18.2Albianum te confecisse arbitror.
I think you have settled the Albian business.
de Patulciano nomine, quod mihi †suspendiatus est†, gratissimum est et simile tuorum omnium.
As for the Patulcian debt, which to me †suspendiatus est†, it is most welcome and just like all your actions.
sed ego Erotem ad ista expedienda factum mihi videbar reliquisse; cuius non sine magna culpa vacillarunt.
But I seemed to myself to have left Eros as a man well-suited to expedite those matters; because of whose great fault they have wavered.
sed cum ipso videro.
But I will see to him myself later.
§14.18.3de Montano, ut saepe ad te scripsi, erit tibi tota res curae.
Concerning Montanus, as I have often written to you, the whole matter will be for your care.
Servius proficiscens quod desperanter tecum locutus est minime miror neque ei quicquam in desperatione concedo.
I am not at all surprised that Servius, as he was setting out, spoke to you in a despairing tone, nor do I yield to him at all in despair.
§14.18.4Brutus noster, singularis vir, si in senatum non est Kal. Iuniis venturus, quid facturus sit in foro nescio.
Our Brutus, that singular man, if he is not going to come to the Senate on the Calends of June, I do not know what he is going to do in the forum.
sed hoc ipse melius.
But he himself will know this better.
ego ex iis quae parari video non multum Idibus Martiis profectum iudico.
From what I see being prepared, I judge that not much was achieved by the Ides of March.
itaque de Graecia cotidie magis et magis cogito.
Therefore, I think more and more of Greece every day.
nec enim Bruto meo exsilium, ut scribit ipse, meditanti video quid prodesse possim.
For I do not see how I can be of any help to my Brutus, who, as he writes himself, is contemplating exile.
Leonidae me litterae non satis delectarunt.
Leonidas's letter did not please me enough.
de Herode tibi adsentior.
On Herodes, I agree with you.
Saufei legisse vellem.
I wish I had read Saufeius's letter.
ego ex Pompeiano vi Idus Mai. cogitabam.
I was thinking of departing from my Pompeian villa on the sixth day before the Ides of May.