Marcus Tullius Cicero→Titus Pomponius Atticus|c. 58 BC|Cicero|From Rome|To Rome/Athens|AI-assisted
I had no doubt that I would see you at Tarentum or Brundisium, and that was of importance for many reasons, among them both that we might make a halt in Epirus and that we might avail ourselves of your counsel concerning the remaining matters. Since that did not come to pass, this too will be among the great number of our misfortunes. Our route lies into Asia, chiefly to Cyzicus. I commend my family to you. I sustain myself with difficulty and in wretchedness. Dispatched on the fourteenth day before the Kalends of May, from the territory of Tarentum.
I quite expected to see you at Tarentum or Brundisium, and it was
important that I should for many reasons, among others for my stay in
Epirus and for the advantage of your advice in other matters. That it
did not happen I shall count among my many other misfortunes. I am
starting for Asia, for Cyzicus in particular. I entrust my dear ones to
you. It is with difficulty that I prolong my miserable existence.
From the neighbourhood of Tarentum, April 17.
non fuerat mihi dubium quin te Tarenti aut Brundisi visurus essem idque ad multa pertinuit, in eis et ut in Epiro consisteremus et de reliquis rebus tuo consilio uteremur. quoniam id non contigit, erit hoc quoque in magno numero nostrorum malorum. nobis iter est in Asiam, maxime Cyzicum. meos tibi commendo. me vix misereque sustento. data xiiii K. Maias de Tarentino.
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I had no doubt that I would see you at Tarentum or Brundisium, and that was of importance for many reasons, among them both that we might make a halt in Epirus and that we might avail ourselves of your counsel concerning the remaining matters. Since that did not come to pass, this too will be among the great number of our misfortunes. Our route lies into Asia, chiefly to Cyzicus. I commend my family to you. I sustain myself with difficulty and in wretchedness. Dispatched on the fourteenth day before the Kalends of May, from the territory of Tarentum.
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Latin / Greek Original
non fuerat mihi dubium quin te Tarenti aut Brundisi visurus essem idque ad multa pertinuit, in eis et ut in Epiro consisteremus et de reliquis rebus tuo consilio uteremur. quoniam id non contigit, erit hoc quoque in magno numero nostrorum malorum. nobis iter est in Asiam, maxime Cyzicum. meos tibi commendo. me vix misereque sustento. data xiiii K. Maias de Tarentino.