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    M. Tullius Cicero, Letters (ed. Evelyn Shuckburgh)

    B.C. 65. Coss., L. Aurelius Cotta, L. Manlius Torquatus.

    Editions and translations: Latin (ed. L. C. Purser) | English (ed. Evelyn Shuckburgh)
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    XI (A I, 2)

    TO ATTICUS (AT ATHENS)

    ROME, JULY

    I have to inform you that on the day of the election of L. Iulius Caesar and C. Marcius Figulus to the Consulship, I had an addition to my family in the shape of a baby boy. Terentia doing well.

    Why such a time without a letter from you? I have already written to you fully about my circumstances. At this present time I am considering whether to undertake the defence of my fellow candidate, Catiline. 1 We have a jury to our minds with full consent of the prosecutor. I hope that if he is acquitted he will be more closely united with me in the conduct of our canvass; but if the result be otherwise I shall bear it with resignation. Your early return is of great importance to me, for there is a very strong idea [p. 17] prevailing that some intimate friends of yours, persons of high rank, will be opposed to my election. To win me their favour I see that I shall want you very much. Wherefore be sure to be in Rome in January, as you have agreed to be.

    1 Asconius assigns this to the accusation of embezzlement in Africa. But that seems to have been tried in the previous year, or earlier in his year. The new impeachment threatened seems to have been connected with his crimes in the proscriptions of Sulla (Dio, 37.10). Cicero may have thought of defending him on a charge relating to so distant a period, just as he did Rabirius on the charge of murdering Saturninus (B.C. 100), though he had regarded his guilt in the case of extortion in Africa as glaring.

    There are a total of 6 comments on and cross references to this page.

    Further comments from Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero:
    book 1, letter 2 (general note)
    book 1, letter 2: L. Iulio Caesare C. Marcio Figulo consulibus
    book 1, letter 2: filiolo
    book 1, letter 2: scito
    book 1, letter 2: Terentia
    book 1, letter 2: abs te ... ego
    book 1, letter 2: hoc tempore ... cogitamus
    book 1, letter 2: summa accusatoris voluntate
    book 1, letter 2: tuos familiares
    book 1, letter 2: nobiles homines ... fore
    book 1, letter 2: Ianuario ... Romae sis
    book 1, letter 2: S. t. e. q. v. b. e.
    book 1, letter 2: publice
    book 1, letter 2: tantam ... spem oti
    book 1, letter 2: pollicebar
    book 1, letter 2: veteres hostis, novos amicos
    book 1, letter 2: iacere
    book 1, letter 2: mea ... studia
    book 1, letter 2: in tuis litteris
    book 1, letter 2: ne ... offenderes
    book 1, letter 2: ne ... offenderes
    book 1, letter 2: orbis terrae
    book 1, letter 2: Africanus ... Laelium
    book 1, letter 2: Laelium
    book 1, letter 2: me
    book 1, letter 2: tantum quod
    book 1, letter 2: Arpinati
    book 1, letter 2: Aviani
    book 1, letter 2: rogare de die
    book 1, letter 2: annua
    book 1, letter 2: mi Galle
    book 1, letter 2: Damasippus
    book 1, letter 2: genus omnino signorum omnium
    book 1, letter 2: Musis Metelli
    book 1, letter 2: tanti putassem
    book 1, letter 2: Musis omnibus approbantibus
    book 1, letter 2: erat
    book 1, letter 2: Martis ... pacis auctori
    book 1, letter 2: aes alienum
    book 1, letter 2: Mercuri
    book 1, letter 2: felicius ... transigere possemus
    book 1, letter 2: trapezophorum
    book 1, letter 2: ne ego
    book 1, letter 2: deversorium
    book 1, letter 2: exhedria
    book 1, letter 2: Pseudodamasippum
    book 1, letter 2: Cassio
    book 1, letter 2: ne vivam

    Cross references from Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar for Schools and Colleges (eds. J. B. Greenough, G. L. Kittredge, A. A. Howard, Benj. L. D'Ooge):
    2, 449 [IMPERATIVE MOOD]: filiolo me auctum scito
    2, 449 [IMPERATIVE MOOD]: cura ut Romae sis

    Cross references from Frank Frost Abbott, Commentary on Selected Letters of Cicero:
    * [Letter I: ad Atticum 1.1]

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