§14.8.1tu me iam rebare, cum scribebas, in actis esse nostris, et ego accepi xvii Kal. in deversoriolo Sinuessano tuas litteras.
\nWhen you were writing, you supposed me to be already on our shores, and I received your letter on the seventeenth day before the Kalends at a small lodge in Sinuessa.
de Mario probe, etsi doleo L. Crassi nepotem.
As for Marius, well and good, though I grieve for the grandson of Lucius Crassus.
optime iam etiam Bruto nostro probari Antonium.
It is excellent that Antonius is now approved of even by our Brutus.
nam quod Iuniam scribis moderate et amice scriptas litteras attulisse, mihi Paulus dedit ad se a fratre missas; quibus in extremis erat sibi insidias fieri; se id certis auctoribus comperisse.
For as to your writing that Junia brought a letter written in a moderate and friendly tone, Paullus gave me a letter sent to him by his brother, at the end of which it was written that a plot was being laid against him, and that he had learned this from reliable sources.
hoc nec mihi placebat et multo illi minus.
This did not please me, and pleased him much less.
reginae fuga mihi non molesta est.
The flight of the queen is not displeasing to me.
Clodia quid egerit scribas ad me velim.
I should like you to write to me what Clodia has done.
de Byzantiis curabis ut cetera et Pelopem ad te arcesses.
As for the Byzantines, you will take care of it as you do other things, and summon Pelops to you.
ego, ut postulas, Baiana negotia chorumque illum de quo scire vis, cum perspexero, tum scribam, ne quid ignores. §14.8.2quid Galli, quid Hispani, quid Sextus agat vehementer exspecto.
As for me, as you request, once I have looked into the affairs at Baiae and that troupe about which you wish to know, I will write to you, so that you remain ignorant of nothing.\n\nI am eagerly waiting to hear what the Gauls, what the Spaniards, and what Sextus are doing.
ea scilicet tu declarabis qui cetera.
You of course will make these things clear, you who make other things clear.
nauseolam tibi tuam causam oti dedisse facile patiebar.
I was well content that your slight attack of nausea gave you an excuse for leisure.
videbare enim mihi legenti tuas litteras requiesse paulisper.
For as I read your letter, you seemed to me to have rested for a little while.
de Bruto semper ad me omnia perscribito, ubi sit, quid cogitet.
Write to me fully everything about Brutus always: where he is, and what he is thinking.
quem quidem ego spero iam tuto vel solum tota urbe vagari posse.
As for him, I indeed hope that he can now wander safely even alone through the whole city.
verum tamen—.
But yet—.