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Cicero

Letters to Atticus Passage 3

Passage 16 of 1,479

Canonical reference 1.5.3

Latin

perseus-cicero-letters_to_atticus-lat

de litterarum missione sine causa abs te accusor. numquam enim a Pomponia nostra certior sum factus esse cui dare litteras possem, porro autem neque mihi accidit ut haberem qui in Epirum proficisceretur nequedum te Athenis esse audiebamus.

English AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11

You blame me without cause for failing to send letters. Our Pomponia never informed me that there was anyone to whom I could entrust a letter. Moreover, I happened to have nobody setting out for Epirus, and we had not yet heard that you were at Athens.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11

Tu m’accuses sans raison de ne pas t’envoyer de lettres. En effet, notre Pomponia ne m’a jamais averti qu’il se trouvait quelqu’un à qui je pourrais en confier; par ailleurs, je n’ai rencontré personne qui partît pour l’Épire, et nous n’avions pas encore appris que tu étais à Athènes.

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