Latin Texts & Translations

DCLXVI (A XIII, 51)

TO ATTICUS (AT ROME) TUSCULUM, 24 AUGUST

THE reason of my not sending you at the time a copy of the letter which I wrote to Caesar was that I forgot. Neither was the motive what you suspected it to have been-shame of appearing in your eyes to be ridiculously time-serving ^[Note] nor, by heaven, did I write otherwise than I should have written to an equal and a man like myself. For I really do think well of those books of his, ^[Note] as I told you when we met. Accordingly, I wrote without any flattery, and at the same time in such a tone as I think will give him as much pleasure to read it as possible.

At last I have certain news of Attica. So please congratulate her all over again. Tell me all about Tigellius, and that promptly; for I am feeling uneasy. Now listen to this: Quintus ^[Note] arrives tomorrow, but whether at my house or yours I don't know. He wrote me word that he would be at Rome on the 25th. But I have sent a man to invite him here: though, by heaven, I must come to Rome, lest Caesar should make a descent there before me.