Cicero Letters to Atticus, Vol. 3 of 3
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Complete work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Some scanning errors (automatic measure over the whole text, not checked by hand) · 9 illegible passages, excluded from answers
- Extent:
- ~130,000 words · 621 passages
Cite this work
- APACicero. (n.d.). Cicero Letters to Atticus, Vol. 3 of 3. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/cicero/cicero-letters-to-atticus-vol-3-of-3
- MLACicero. Cicero Letters to Atticus, Vol. 3 of 3. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/cicero/cicero-letters-to-atticus-vol-3-of-3.
- ChicagoCicero. Cicero Letters to Atticus, Vol. 3 of 3. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/cicero/cicero-letters-to-atticus-vol-3-of-3.
Reference to the edition that SigPhi reproduces: SigPhi is its digital reproduction, not its publisher. The edition's year is not in the metadata (hence "n.d."), and the translator appears only when recorded.
What it is about
The third of the three volumes of Cicero's letters to Atticus: the frankest correspondence to reach us from antiquity.
Context and history
Atticus was the friend of his whole life, a rich knight who never sought public office, and precisely for that reason Cicero writes to him as he writes to no one else: without posing, changing his mind halfway through a letter, asking advice and confessing fear. It is the principal source for the last years of the republic seen from within. NOTE TO THE READER: the catalogue also holds 'The Letters of Cicero', a different edition gathering the whole correspondence in chronological order — so the letters to Atticus appear there TOO. This is not an error: they are two distinct editions of the same material, differently translated and differently arranged. It is worth knowing, because the same letter may appear twice in different words, and a citation must say which edition it comes from.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
Vettieni condicione semissem. Σκέψαι igitur. Ac vereor, ne iste iam auctionem nullam faciat, sed ludis factis Ἀτύπῳ[29] subsidio currat, ne talis vir ἀλογηθῇ. Sed μελήσει. Tu Atticam, quaeso, cura et ei salutem et Piliae Tulliae quoque verbis plurimam. Footnote 29: Ἀτύπῳ _Popma_: clypo _M_: Olympo _m_. IV CICERO ATTICO SAL. [Sidenote: _Scr. in Tusculano Id. Iun. a. 708_] O gratas tuas mihi iucundasque litteras! Quid quaeris? restitutus est mihi dies festus. Angebar enim, quod Tiro ἐνερευθέστερον te sibi esse visum dixerat. Addam igitur, ut censes, unum diem. Sed de Catone πρόβλημα Ἀρχιμήδειον est. Non adsequor, ut scribam, quod tui convivae non modo libenter, sed etiam aequo animo legere possint; quin etiam, si a sententiis eius dictis, si ab omni voluntate consiliisque, quae de re publica habuit, recedam; ψιλῶςque velim gravitatem constantiamque eius laudare, hoc ipsum tamen istis odiosum ἄκουσμα sit. Sed vere laudari ille vir non potest, nisi haec ornata sint, quod ille ea, quae nunc sunt, et futura viderit, et, ne fierent, contenderit, et, facta ne videret, vitam reliquerit. Horum quid est, quod Aledio probare possimus? Sed cura, obsecro, ut valeas, eamque, quam ad omnes res adhibes, in primis ad convalescendum adhibe prudentiam. * * * * * Page 9 might accept Vettienus'[30] proposal and take half paid down. So look into the matter. The fact is I am afraid Caesar may not hold any auction now, but, as soon as his games are over, may run off to the aid of his stammering friend,[31] not to slight so important a person. But I will attend to the matter. Pray take care of Attica and give her and Pilia and Tullia my kindest greetings. Footnote 30: A banker (cf. _Att._ X.…