Letters to Atticus Passage 1

de geographia etiam atque etiam deliberabimus. orationes autem a me duas postulas; quarum alteram non libebat mihi scribere †qui absciram†, alteram, ne laudarem eum quem non amabam. sed id quoque videbimus. denique aliquid exstabit, ne tibi plane cessasse videamur.

We shall deliberate again and again about the geography. You ask me for two speeches. I did not care to write one †which I had cut off†, and the other because I did not wish to praise a man I did not love. But we shall consider that too. In short, something will emerge, so that I may not seem to you entirely idle.

Nous réfléchirons encore et encore à la géographie. Tu me demandes deux discours: je ne souhaitais pas écrire le premier, †moi qui absciram†, ni le second, afin de ne pas louer un homme que je n’aimais pas. Mais nous verrons aussi cela. En somme, quelque chose paraîtra, pour que tu ne croies pas que je suis demeuré entièrement oisif.