Cicero · Marcus Tullius Cicero
CICERO TO ATTICUS, GREETING.
“Meantime the course you chose in youth’s first spring And held to, heart and soul, ’mid civic strife Keep still, with growing fame and good report.” Since Calliope herself dictated those verses to me in a book full of passages in lordly vein, I ought not to have the least hesitation in holding “no omen, better [Sidenote: Iliad xii, 243] than to right one’s country’s wrongs.” But this point must be reserved for our strolls at the Compitalia. Do you remember the day before the festival. I will order the bath to be heated, and Terentia is going to invite Pomponia. We will make Footnote 57: On his consulship. adiungemus. Θεοφράστου περὶ φιλοτιμίας adfer mihi de libris Quinti fratris.
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