Cicero · Marcus Tullius Cicero
CICERO TO ATTICUS, GREETING.
The praetors have not drawn their provinces yet: and things are just as they were when you left. I will insert a description of Misenum and Puteoli in my speech as you suggest. I had already spotted the mistake in the date, Dec. 3. The passages in my speeches which took your fancy were, do you know, just those that I was proud of, but didn’t like to say so before: and after Atticus’ approval they look much more Attic in my eyes. I have added a Footnote 14: Pompey. addidi quaedam. Liber tibi mittetur, quoniam te amor nostri φιλορήτορα reddidit. Novi tibi quidnam scribam? quid? etiam. Messalla consul Autronianam domum emit HS ¯CXXXIIII¯. “Quid id ad me?” inquies. Tantum, quod ea emptione et nos bene emisse iudicati sumus, et homines intellegere coeperunt licere amicorum facultatibus in emendo ad dignitatem aliquam pervenire. Teucris illa lentum negotium est, sed tamen est in spe. Tu ista confice. A nobis liberiorem epistulam exspecta. VI Kal. Febr. M. Messalla, M. Pisone coss.
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