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Cicero
Brutus, or On Eminent Orators Passage 12
Passage 12 of 334
Canonical reference 12
Latin
perseus-cicero-brutus-lat
recte , inquam, est visus; nam me istis scito litteris ex diuturna perturbatione totius valetudinis tamquam ad aspiciendam lucem esse revocatum. Atque ut post Cannensem illam calamitatem primum Marcelli ad Nolam proelio populus se Romanus erexit posteaque prosperae res deinceps multae consecutae sunt, sic post rerum nostrarum et communium gravissimos casus nihil ante epistulam Bruti mihi accidit quod vellem aut quod aliqua ex parte sollicitudines adlevaret meas.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
"Your impression was correct," I said. "For you should know that by that letter I was recalled, as if to look upon the light, from a prolonged disturbance of my entire well-being. And just as, after the disaster at Cannae, the Roman people first raised itself up through Marcellus' battle at Nola, and many successes then followed one after another, so after the gravest disasters to my affairs and to our common cause, nothing happened to me before Brutus' letter that I could welcome or that relieved my anxieties in any degree."
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
«Tu as vu juste, répondis-je; sache en effet que ces lettres m'ont rappelé, après le long bouleversement de toute ma santé, comme à la contemplation de la lumière. Et de même qu'après le désastre de Cannes le peuple romain se releva d'abord grâce au combat de Marcellus à Nola, après quoi de nombreux succès se succédèrent, de même, après les revers les plus accablants de mes affaires et de celles de tous, rien ne m'était arrivé avant la lettre de Brutus que je pusse souhaiter ou qui allégeât en quelque mesure mes inquiétudes.»
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