Letters to Atticus Passage 2

minus multa ad te scripsi, quod exspectabam tuas litteras ad eas quas pridie dederam. exspectabam autem maxime de fano, non nihil etiam de Terentia. velim me facias certiorem proximis litteris Cn. Caepio Serviliae Claudi pater vivone patre suo naufragio perierit an mortuo, item Rutilia vivone C. Cotta filio suo mortua sit an mortuo. pertinent ad eum librum quem de luctu minuendo scripsimus.

I have written less at length because I was awaiting your answer to the letter I sent the day before yesterday. I was waiting chiefly for news about the shrine, though also somewhat about Terentia. In your next letter please inform me whether Gnaeus Caepio, the father of Servilia, wife of Claudius, perished in a shipwreck while his father was alive or after his death; likewise, whether Rutilia died while her son Gaius Cotta was alive or after his death. These questions concern the book we have written on diminishing grief.

Je t’ai écrit moins longuement parce que j’attendais ta réponse à la lettre remise la veille. J’attendais surtout quelque chose au sujet du sanctuaire, et aussi quelque peu au sujet de Térentia. Je voudrais que tu m’informes dans ta prochaine lettre si Cnaeus Caepio, père de Servilia et de Claudius, a péri dans un naufrage du vivant de son propre père ou après sa mort ; et pareillement si Rutilia est morte du vivant de son fils Caius Cotta ou après lui. Ces renseignements concernent le livre que j’ai écrit sur l’atténuation du deuil.