The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1

Volume 1 — III (A I, 7)

Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation

TO ATTICUS (AT ATHENS)

Rome, December

B.C. 68, ÆT. 38

All's well at your mother's,[31] and I keep an eye on her. I have undertaken to pay L. Cincius 20,400 sesterces[32] to your credit on the Ides of February. Pray see that I receive at the earliest possible opportunity what you say in your letters that you have bought and secured for me. I should also be very much obliged if you would, as you promised, think over the means of securing the library for me. My hope of getting the one enjoyment which I care for, when I come to retire, depends entirely on your kindness.

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · The mother of Atticus lived to be ninety, dying in B.C. 33, not long before Atticus himself, who at her funeral declared that "he had never Note 2 · This sum (about £163) is for the works of art purchased for the writer by Atticus.