§4.7.1nihil εὐκαιρότερον epistula tua quae me sollicitum de Quinto nostro, puero optimo, valde levavit.
Nothing could be more timely than your letter, which greatly relieved me, anxious as I was about our Quintus, that excellent boy.
venerat horis duabus ante Chaerippus, mera monstra nuntiarat.
Two hours before, Chaerippus had come and reported mere monstrosities.
de Apollonio quod scribis, qui illi di irati! homini Graeco qui conturbat atque idem putat sibi licere quod equitibus Romanis.
As to what you write about Apollonius, may the gods be angry with him! A Greek who goes bankrupt and thinks the same is permitted to him as to Roman knights.
nam Terentius suo iure.
For Terentius acts by his own right.
§4.7.2de Metello
"οὐχ ὁσίη φθιμένοισιν,"
sed tamen multis annis civis nemo erat mortuus qui quidem tibi nummi meo periculo sint.
Concerning Metellus, "it is not holy to boast over the dead," but yet for many years no citizen had died whose money, indeed, is not yours at my risk.
quid enim vereris? quemcumque heredem fecit, nisi Publium fecit, virum fecit, non improbe, quamquam fuit ipse.
For what do you fear? Whomever he made his heir, unless he made Publius, he made a man, not improperly, although he himself was otherwise.
qua re in hoc thecam nummariam non retexeris, in aliis eris cautior.
Therefore, in this case you will not unsew your money-bag; in others you will be more cautious.
§4.7.3mea mandata de domo curabis, praesidia locabis, Milonem admonebis.
You will attend to my commissions about the house, post guards, and advise Milo.
Arpinatium fremitus est incredibilis de Laterio.
The clamor of the Arpinates about Laterius is incredible.
quid quaeris? equidem dolui;
What more would you know?
"ὁ δὲ οὐκ ἐμπάζετο"
quod superest, etiam puerum Ciceronem curabis et amabis, ut facis.
I indeed was grieved; "but he paid no heed." For the rest, you will look after and love young Cicero, as you do.