Classical Antiquity
common friendship demand. I did expect _some_ congratulation in your letter on my achievements, for the sake at once of the ties between us and of the Republic. This I presume to have been omitted by you from a fear of hurting anyone's feelings. But let me tell you that what I...
Directly I arrived at Rome, and there was anyone to whom I could safely intrust a letter for you, I thought the very first thing I ought to do was to congratulate you in your ab...
2. part I should have preferred your going, and I fear that there may besome offence[108] given in that matter. Nevertheless, I am not the man to blame you, especially considering that I have not gone to a province myself. I shall be quite content w...
6. Letter CXXV.[Footnote 696: Laberius is a rival jurisconsult, Valerius a writer of mimes. Though Cicero jests at the supposed comic character, "a lawyer in Britain" (as we might say, "a lawy...
4. Letter LXIII.I beg you, my dear brother, if you and all my family have been ruined by my single misfortune, not to attribute it to dishonesty and bad conduct on my part, rather than to short...
3. Letter XXIX he says that Quintus has improved in these points, and hadbeen better in his second than in his first year. On the other hand, the context here seems rather to point to the meaning "how _little_ good I have done!"--impatiently dismissi...
1. letter I will write with the candour which my own disposition and ourcommon friendship demand. I did expect _some_ congratulation in your letter on my achievements, for the sake at once of the ties between us and of the Republic. This I presume t...