Letters to Atticus Passage 2

cognosces igitur ex ipso. Balbum conveni - Lepta enim de sua munerum curatione laborans me ad eum perduxerat - in eo autem Lanuvino quod Lepido tradidit. ex eo hoc primum, Paulo ante acceperam eas litteras in quibus magno opere confirmat ante ludos Romanos. legi epistulam. multa de meo Catone, quo saepissime legendo se dicit copiosiorem factum, Bruti Catone lecto se sibi visum disertum.

You will therefore learn the facts from him. I met Balbus, for Lepta, anxious about his management of the games, had taken me to him, at that estate at Lanuvium which he handed over to Lepidus. From him I learned this first. A little earlier I had received the letter in which Caesar strongly confirms that he will arrive before the Roman Games. I read the letter. It contained much about my Cato, which Caesar says has made him more copious in style through repeated reading; after reading Brutus' Cato, he thought himself eloquent.

Tu apprendras donc les choses de sa propre bouche. J’ai rencontré Balbus, car Lepta, inquiet de la charge des jeux qui lui incombe, m’avait conduit chez lui, dans cette propriété de Lanuvium qu’il a cédée à Lepidus. J’ai d’abord appris de lui ceci. Peu auparavant, j’avais reçu la lettre dans laquelle il affirme avec force que César sera là avant les jeux Romains. Je l’ai lue. Elle disait beaucoup de choses sur mon Caton, dont César affirme que les lectures répétées ont enrichi son style; après avoir lu le Caton de Brutus, il s’était trouvé éloquent.