Letters to Atticus Passage 3

nos adhuc, in nostro statu quod difficillime reciperari posse arbitrati sumus, splendorem nostrum illum forensem et in senatu auctoritatem et apud viros bonos gratiam magis quam optaramus consecuti sumus; in re autem familiari, quae quem ad modum fracta, dissipata, direpta sit non ignoras, valde laboramus tuarumque non tam facultatum quas ego nostras esse iudico quam consiliorum ad conligendas et constituendas reliquias nostras indigemus.

Thus far I have recovered more fully than I had wished the part of my former position that I had thought most difficult to regain: my former distinction in the courts, my authority in the senate, and my influence among good men. But in my private finances, which you know have been broken, scattered, and plundered, I am in great difficulty. I need not so much your means, which I regard as my own, as your advice for gathering and establishing what remains to me.

Jusqu’ici, pour ce qui touche à notre position, nous avons recouvré au-delà de nos souhaits ce que nous pensions le plus difficile à retrouver : notre ancien éclat au Forum, notre autorité au Sénat et notre crédit auprès des gens de bien. Mais notre patrimoine, dont tu n’ignores pas comment il a été brisé, dispersé et pillé, nous cause de grandes difficultés. Pour rassembler et remettre en ordre ce qui nous en reste, nous avons besoin moins de tes ressources, que je considère comme les nôtres, que de tes conseils.