The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1

Volume 1 — XXXVII (A II, 10)

Evelyn S. (Evelyn Shirley) Shuckburgh translation

TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)

Appii Forum,[228] April

B.C. 59, ÆT. 47

Please admire my consistency. I am determined not to be at the games at Antium: for it is somewhat of a solecism to wish to avoid all suspicion of frivolity, and yet suddenly to be shewn up as travelling for mere amusement, and that of a foolish kind. Wherefore I shall wait for you till the 7th of May at Formiæ. So now let me know what day we shall see you. From Appii Forum, ten o'clock. I sent another a short time ago from Three Taverns.

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · On the via Appia. Cicero halts at Appii Forum and at once despatches a short note, probably by some one he finds there going to Rome, to ann