§4.9.1sane velim scire num censum impediant tribuni diebus vitiandis (est enim hic rumor) totaque de censura quid agant, quid cogitent.
I should certainly like to know whether the tribunes are hindering the census by declaring the days invalid (for there is such a rumor here), and what they are doing and thinking about the censorship as a whole.
nos hic cum Pompeio fuimus.
We have been here with Pompey.
multa mecum de re publica sane sibi displicens, ut loquebatur (sic est enim in hoc homine dicendum), Syriam spernens, Hispaniam iactans, hic quoque, ut loquebatur; et opinor usque quaque, de hoc cum dicemus, sit hoc quasi καὶ τόδε.
He talked much with me about the republic, being quite dissatisfied with himself, as he spoke (for that is how one must speak of this man), despising Syria, boasting of Spain—here too, as he spoke; and I think, everywhere, when we speak of him, let this be, as it were, καὶ τόδε.
tibi etiam gratias agebat quod signa componenda suscepisses; in nos vero suavissime hercule est effusus.
He also thanked you because you had undertaken the arranging of the statues; indeed, by Hercules, he poured himself out most sweetly towards me.
venit etiam ad me in Cumanum a se.
He even came to me at my Cuman villa from his own place.
nihil minus velle mihi visus est quam Messallam consulatum petere.
He seemed to me to wish nothing less than that Messalla should stand for the consulship.
de quo ipso si quid scis velim scire.
If you know anything about this matter itself, I should like to know.
§4.9.2quod Lucceio scribis te nostram gloriam commendaturum et aedificium nostrum quod crebro invisis, gratum.
As to your writing to Lucceius that you will recommend my glory, and your frequently visiting our building, I am grateful.
Quintus frater ad me scripsit se, quoniam Ciceronem suavissimum tecum haberes, ad te Nonis Maias venturum.
My brother Quintus wrote to me that, since you have the most delightful Cicero with you, he will come to you on the Nones of May.
ego me de Cumano movi ante diem v Kal. Maias.
I moved from my Cuman villa on the fifth day before the Kalends of May.
eo die Neapoli apud Paetum.
On that day I was at Naples with Paetus.
ante diem IIII Kal. Maias iens in Pompeianum bene mane haec scripsi.
On the fourth day before the Kalends of May, on my way to my Pompeian villa very early in the morning, I wrote this.