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Cicero

Letters to Atticus Passage 8

Passage 432 of 1,479

Canonical reference 5.21.8

Latin

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iter igitur ita per Asiam feci ut etiam fames qua nihil miserius est, quae tum erat in hac mea Asia (messis enim nulla fuerat), mihi optanda fuerit. quacumque iter feci, nulla vi, nullo iudicio, nulla contumelia, auctoritate et cohortatione perfeci ut et Graeci et cives Romani qui frumentum compresserant magnum numerum populis pollicerentur.

English AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11

I therefore made my journey through Asia in such a way that even the famine, than which nothing is more wretched, and which then afflicted my part of Asia because there had been no harvest, proved something I could have wished for. Wherever I traveled, without force, judicial proceedings, or insult, but through authority and exhortation, I induced both Greeks and Roman citizens who had withheld grain to promise large quantities to the people.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11

J’ai donc voyagé en Asie dans des conditions telles que même la famine, le pire des malheurs, qui sévissait alors dans cette partie de mon Asie faute de récolte, m’a fourni l’occasion d’agir comme je le souhaitais. Partout où je suis passé, sans violence, sans procès, sans affront, par ma seule autorité et mes exhortations, j’ai obtenu que les Grecs et les citoyens romains qui avaient accaparé le blé en promissent de grandes quantités aux populations.

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