Marcus Tullius Cicero→Terentia|c. 53 BC|Cicero|From Rome|To Rome|Human translated
I think I shall arrive at the Tusculan estate either on the Nones or the day after. Let everything be ready there, for there will perhaps be more people with me, and I expect we shall stay there for a longer time. If there is no bathtub in the bathroom, let there be one, and likewise everything else that is necessary for sustenance and health. Farewell. The Kalends of October, from the Venusinum estate.
CDXLVII (Fam. XIV, 20) TO TERENTIA (AT ROME) VENUSIA, I OCTOBER: I think I shall arrive at my house at Tusculum either on the 7th or the day after. See that everything is ready there. For there will perhaps be several others with me, and we shall stay there a considerable time, I think. If there is no basin in the bath, have one put in: and so with every-thing necessary for supporting life and health. Good-bye. 1 October, from Venusia .
XX. Scr. de Venusino Kal. Octobribus a.u.c. 707. TULLIUS S. D. TERENTIAE SUAE.
In Tusculanum nos venturos putamus aut Nonis aut postridie: ibi ut sint omnia parata—plures enim fortasse nobiscum erunt et, ut arbitror, diutius ibi commorabimur—; labrum si in balineo non est, ut sit, item cetera, quae sunt ad victum et ad valetudinem necessaria. Vale. K. Oct. de Venusino.
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I think I shall arrive at the Tusculan estate either on the Nones or the day after. Let everything be ready there, for there will perhaps be more people with me, and I expect we shall stay there for a longer time. If there is no bathtub in the bathroom, let there be one, and likewise everything else that is necessary for sustenance and health. Farewell. The Kalends of October, from the Venusinum estate.
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Latin / Greek Original
XX. Scr. de Venusino Kal. Octobribus a.u.c. 707. TULLIUS S. D. TERENTIAE SUAE.
In Tusculanum nos venturos putamus aut Nonis aut postridie: ibi ut sint omnia parata—plures enim fortasse nobiscum erunt et, ut arbitror, diutius ibi commorabimur—; labrum si in balineo non est, ut sit, item cetera, quae sunt ad victum et ad valetudinem necessaria. Vale. K. Oct. de Venusino.