§5.1.1ego vero et tuum in discessu vidi animum et meo sum ipse testis.
Indeed, I both saw your feelings at our parting, and I myself am a witness to my own.
quo magis erit tibi videndum ne quid novi decernatur, ut hoc nostrum desiderium ne plus sit annuum.
For this reason, you must see to it all the more that no new decree is passed, so that this separation of ours may not exceed a year.
de Annio Saturnino curasti probe.
You have managed the matter of Annius Saturninus very well.
§5.1.2de satis dando vero te rogo, quoad eris Romae tu ut satis des.
As to giving security, however, I beg you, as long as you are in Rome, to provide it yourself.
et sunt aliquot satisdationes secundum mancipium veluti Mennianorum praediorum vel Atilianorum.
And there are several guarantees to be given in connection with purchase, such as those of the Mennian or Atilian estates.
de Oppio factum est ut volui, et maxime quod DCCC aperuisti.
Regarding Oppius, it has been done as I wished, and especially because you made available the eight hundred thousand.
quae quidem ego utique vel versura facta solvi volo, ne extrema exactio nostrorum nominum exspectetur.
Indeed, I wish these to be paid off by all means, even by taking a new loan, so that we do not wait for the final calling-in of our debts.
§5.1.3nunc venio ad transversum illum extremae epistulae tuae versiculum in quo me admones de sorore.
Now I come to that crosswise line at the end of your letter in which you remind me about your sister.
quae res se sic habet.
The matter stands thus.
ut veni in Arpinas, cum ad me frater venisset, in primis nobis sermo isque multus de te fuit.
When I arrived at Arpinum and my brother came to me, our conversation was first of all, and at great length, about you.
ex quo ego veni ad ea quae fueramus ego et tu inter nos de sorore in Tusculano locuti.
From this I turned to what you and I had discussed between ourselves at Tusculum concerning your sister.
nihil tam vidi mite, nihil tam placatum quam tum meus frater erat in sororem tuam, ut, etiam si qua fuerat ex ratione sumptus offensio, non appareret.
I never saw anything so gentle, nothing so appeased as my brother then was towards your sister, so that even if there had been any offense arising from the calculation of expenses, it did not appear.
ille sic dies.
That day passed thus.
postridie ax Arpinati profecti sumus.
On the following day we set out from Arpinum.
ut in Arcano Quintus maneret dies fecit, ego Aquini, sed prandimus in Arcano.
The circumstances of the day made Quintus stay at Arcanum, and me at Aquinum, but we lunched at Arcanum.
nosti hunc fundum.
You know this estate.
quo ut venimus, humanissime Quintus
"Pomponia"
inquit
"tu invita mulieres, ego viros accivero. "
nihil potuit, mihi quidem ut visum est, dulcius idque cum verbis tum etiam animo ac vultu.
When we arrived there, Quintus said most politely: "Pomponia, you invite the women, I will call the men." Nothing could have been, at least as it seemed to me, sweeter, and that not only in words but also in spirit and expression.
at illa audientibus nobis
"ego ipsa sum"
inquit
"hic hospita,"
id autem ex eo, ut opinor, quod antecesserat Statius ut prandium nobis videret.
But she, in our hearing, said: "I myself am a stranger here," and this, I believe, because Statius had gone ahead to arrange our luncheon.
tum Quintus
"en"
inquit mihi
"haec ego patior cotidie. " §5.1.4dices
"quid quaeso istuc erat?"
magnum; itaque me ipsum commoverat; sic absurde et aspere verbis vultuque responderat.
Then Quintus said to me: "Look, this is what I suffer every day." You will say: "What, I pray, was that?" A great deal; and indeed it had upset even me; so absurdly and harshly had she answered in both words and expression.
dissimulavi dolens.
I concealed my pain.
discubuimus omnes praeter illam, cui tamen Quintus de mensa misit.
We all sat down at table except her, to whom nevertheless Quintus sent something from the table.
illa reiecit.
She rejected it.
quid multa? nihil meo fratre lenius, nihil asperius tua sorore mihi visum est; et multa praetereo quae tum mihi maiori stomacho quam ipsi Quinto fuerunt.
In short, nothing seemed to me gentler than my brother, nothing harsher than your sister; and I pass over many things which then were a source of greater vexation to me than to Quintus himself.
ego inde Aquinum.
I went from there to Aquinum.
Quintus in Arcano remansit et Aquinum ad me postridie mane venit mihique narravit nec secum illam dormire voluisse et cum discessura esset fuisse eius modi qualem ego vidissem.
Quintus remained at Arcanum and came to me at Aquinum the next morning, and told me that she had refused to sleep with him and that when she was about to depart, her behavior had been just as I had seen.
quid quaeris? vel ipsi hoc dicas licet, humanitatem ei meo iudicio illo die defuisse.
In a word, you may even say this to her yourself: in my judgment, polite manners were lacking to her on that day.
haec ad te scripsi fortasse pluribus quam necesse fuit, ut videres tuas quoque esse partis instituendi et monendi.
I have written this to you, perhaps in more words than was necessary, so that you might see that it is also your part to advise and admonish her.
reliquum est ut ante quam proficiscare mandata nostra exhaurias, scribas ad me omnia, Pomptinum extrudas, cum profectus eris cures ut sciam, sic habeas nihil me hercule te mihi nec carius esse nec suavius.
For the rest, before you depart, fulfill our commissions, write everything to me, push Pomptinus along, take care that I know when you have set out, and be assured of this, that by Hercules nothing is either dearer or more delightful to me than you.
A. Torquatum amantissime dimisi Menturnis, optimum virum; cui me ad te scripsisse aliquid in sermone significes velim.
I parted very affectionately with Aulus Torquatus at Minturnae, an excellent man; I should like you to indicate to him in conversation that I have written something to you.