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Cicero
Letters to Atticus Passage 3
Passage 1,091 of 1,479
Canonical reference 13.1.3
Latin
perseus-cicero-letters_to_atticus-lat
exspecto quid istis placeat de epistula ad Caesarem. Nicias te, ut debet, amat vehementerque tua sui memoria delectatur. ego vero Peducaeum nostrum vehementer diligo; nam et quanti patrem feci, †totum in hunc† ipsum per se aeque amo atque illum amavi, te vero plurimum qui hoc ab utroque nostrum fieri velis. si hortos inspexeris et si de epistula certiorem me feceris, dederis mihi quod ad te scribam; si minus, scribam tamen aliquid. numquam enim deerit.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
I await their opinion of the letter to Caesar. Nicias loves you, as he should, and is intensely delighted that you remember him. I myself am deeply fond of our Peducaeus. I valued his father highly, and †all of that affection passes to this man†; I love him for himself as much as I loved his father, and you most of all for wishing both of us to do so. If you inspect the gardens and inform me about the letter, you will give me something to write about. Otherwise I shall still write something, for a subject will never be lacking.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
J’attends de savoir ce que ces gens pensent de la lettre à César. Nicias t’aime comme il le doit et se réjouit vivement que tu te souviennes de lui. Quant à moi, j’aime beaucoup notre Peducaeus; car, outre l’estime que j’avais pour son père, †tout entière en celui-ci†, je l’aime pour lui-même autant que j’ai aimé son père, et je t’aime plus encore, toi qui veux que nous éprouvions l’un et l’autre ce sentiment. Si tu inspectes les jardins et m’informes au sujet de la lettre, tu m’auras donné matière à t’écrire; sinon, je t’écrirai tout de même quelque chose. La matière ne manquera jamais.
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