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Cicero · Letters to Atticus §15.28.1

Departure for Puteoli and Request for News on the Games

Passage 437 of 461 · Latin

Summary

Cicero states that he decided to go to Puteoli, asks Atticus for updates about the games, and mentions sending Brutus's letter. He also asks Atticus to apologize to young Attica on his behalf.

§15.28.1ego, ut ad te pridie scripseram, Nonis constitueram venire in Puteolanum.
I, as I had written to you the day before, had decided to come to my villa at Puteoli on the Nones.
ibi igitur cotidie tuas litteras exspectabo et maxime de ludis; de quibus etiam ad Brutum tibi scribendum est.
There, therefore, I shall expect your letters daily, and especially about the games; concerning which you must also write to Brutus.
cuius epistulae quam interpretari ipse vix poteram exemplum pridie tibi miseram.
A copy of his letter, which I myself could scarcely interpret, I had sent to you the day before.
Atticae meae velim me ita excuses ut omnem culpam in te transferas et ei tamen confirmes me immutatum amorem meum mecum abstulisse.
I would like you to excuse me to my dear Attica in such a way that you transfer all the blame to yourself, and yet assure her that I have carried away with me my unaltered love for her.

Notes

  1. §15.28.1cuius epistulae ... exemplum — The relative adjective cuius refers to the preceding Brutum, meaning "a copy (exemplum) of his (Brutus's) letter." exemplum is the accusative object of the main verb miseram, while the relative pronoun quam (feminine accusative singular) refers to epistulae and serves as the object of the infinitive interpretari.
  2. §15.28.1velim me ita excuses — velim is a potential/optative subjunctive expressing a polite wish, governing the subjunctive excuses without the conjunction ut. The correlative structure ita ... ut expresses manner or result: "I would like you to excuse me in such a way that..."
  3. §15.28.1me immutatum amorem meum mecum abstulisse — An accusative and infinitive clause (indirect statement) governed by confirmes. The subject is the accusative me, and the verb is the perfect infinitive abstulisse. The literal meaning is "that I have carried away with me my unchanged love."

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Cicero, Letters to Atticus §15.28.1. Humanitext Reader, https://reader.humanitext.ai/en/text/urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi057.humanitext-lat1:15.28.1

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