§1.6.1noli exspectare dum tibi gratias agam.
Do not wait for me to thank you.
iam pridem hoc ex nostra necessitudine quae ad summam benevolentiam pervenit sublatum esse debet.
This ought to have been banished long ago from our intimacy, which has reached the highest degree of goodwill.
filius tuus a me abest; in Macedonia congrediemur.
Your son is away from me; we shall meet in Macedonia.
iussus est enim Ambracia ducere equites per Thessaliam.
For he was ordered to lead the cavalry from Ambracia through Thessaly.
scripsi ad eum ut mihi Heracleam occurreret.
I have written to him to meet me at Heraclea.
Cum eum videro, quoniam nobis permittis, communiter constituemus de reditu eius ad petitionem aut commendationem honoris.
When I see him, since you leave it to us, we shall determine in common about his return for the candidacy or the recommendation for office.
§1.6.2tibi Glycona, medicum Pansae, qui sororem Achilleos nostri in matrimonio habet, diligentissime commendo.
I recommend Glycon to you most earnestly, the physician of Pansa, who has the sister of our Achilleus in marriage.
audimus eum venisse in suspicionem Torquato de morte Pansae custodirique ut parricidam.
We hear that he has fallen under suspicion by Torquatus concerning the death of Pansa, and is being guarded as a parricide.
nihil minus credendum est;
Nothing is less to be believed; for who received a greater calamity by Pansa's death?
quis enim maiorem calamitatem morte Pansae accepit? praeterea est modestus homo et frugi quem ne utilitas quidem videatur impulsura fuisse ad facinus.
Besides, he is a modest and upright man, whom not even any self-interest would seem to have been likely to impel to a crime.
rogo te et quidem valde rogo (nam Achilleus noster non minus quam aequum est laborat) eripias eum ex custodia conservesque.
I ask you, and indeed ask you earnestly (for our Achilleus is no less anxious than is fair), that you rescue him from custody and preserve him.
hoc ego ad meum officium privatarum rerum aeque atque ullam aliam rem pertinere arbitror.
I consider that this concerns my duty in private matters as much as any other thing.
§1.6.3Cum has ad te scriberem litteras, a Satrio, legato C. Treboni, reddita est epistula mihi a Tillio et Deiotaro Dolabellam caesum fugatumque esse.
As I was writing this letter to you, a letter was delivered to me by Satrius, the lieutenant of Gaius Trebonius, stating that by Tillius and Deiotarus, Dolabella had been slain and put to flight.
Graecam epistulam tibi misi Cicereii cuiusdam ad Satrium missam.
I have sent you a Greek letter sent by a certain Cicereius to Satrius.
§1.6.4Flavius noster de controversia quam habet cum Dyrrhachinis hereditariam sumpsit te iudicem.
Our Flavius has chosen you as judge concerning the dispute over an inheritance which he has with the people of Dyrrhachium.
rogo te, Cicero, et Flavius rogat rem conficias.
I ask you, Cicero, and Flavius also asks, that you settle the matter.
quin ei qui Flavium fecit heredem pecuniam debuerit civitas non est dubium; neque Dyrrhachini infitiantur sed sibi donatum aes alienum a Caesare dicunt.
There is no doubt that the city owed money to the man who made Flavius his heir; nor do the people of Dyrrhachium deny it, but they say that the debt was remitted to them by Caesar.
noli pati a necessariis tuis necessario meo iniuriam fieri.
Do not allow an injustice to be done to my close friend by your close friends.
xiiii K. Iunias ex castris ad imam Candaviam.
On the fourteenth day before the Kalends of June, from the camp at the foot of Candavia.