§9.2.1Etsi Nonis Martiis die tuo, ut opinor, exspectabam epistulam a te longiorem, tamen ad eam ipsam brevem quam IIII Nonas ὑπὸ τὴν διαλῆψιν dedisti rescribendum putavi.
Although on the Nones of March, your day as I suppose, I was expecting a longer letter from you, yet I thought I ought to reply to that very brief one which you dispatched on the fourth day before the Nones, during an interval of your fever.
gaudere ais te mansisse me et scribis in sententia te manere.
You say that you are glad that I have remained, and you write that you remain of the same opinion.
mihi autem superioribus litteris videbare non dubitare quin cederem ita si et Gnaeus bene comitatus conscendisset et consules transissent.
To me, however, in your former letters, you seemed to have no doubt but that I should depart, provided only that Gnaeus had embarked well-attended and the consuls had crossed over.
utrum hoc tu parum commeministi, an ego non satis intellexi, an mutasti sententiam? sed aut ex epistula quam exspecto perspiciam quid sentias aut alias abs te litteras eliciam.
Is it that you have not remembered this very well, or that I did not understand it sufficiently, or have you changed your opinion? But either from the letter which I am expecting I shall perceive what you think, or I shall draw another letter from you.
Brundisio nihildum erat adlatum
Nothing had yet been brought from Brundisium.