The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1

Volume 1 — LXXXV (A III, 25)

Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation

TO ATTICUS (? IN EPIRUS[374])

Dyrrachium (December)

B.C. 58, ÆT 48

After you left me I received a letter from Rome, from which I see clearly that I must rot away in this state of disfranchisement: for I can't believe (don't be offended at my saying so) that you would have left town at this juncture, if there had been the least hope left of my restoration. But I pass over this, that I may not seem to be ungrateful and to wish everything to share my own ruin. All I ask of you is what you have faithfully promised, that you will appear before the 1st of January wherever I may be.

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · There is no indication in the letter as to where Atticus is. He left Rome late in B.C. 58, and apparently did not return till after Cicero's