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Cicero

Letters to Atticus Passage 1

Passage 371 of 1,479

Canonical reference 5.8.1

Latin

perseus-cicero-letters_to_atticus-lat

me et incommoda valetudo, e qua iam emerseram utpote cum sine febri laborassem, et Pomptini exspectatio de quo adhuc ne rumor quidem venerat, tenebat duodecimum iam diem Brundisi; sed cursum exspectabamus.

English AI-generated translation, non-official

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

An inconvenient illness, from which I had now recovered, since I had suffered without fever, and my waiting for Pomptinus, about whom not even a rumor had yet arrived, were keeping me at Brundisium for the twelfth day. But we were awaiting a fair wind.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Une santé incommode, dont je m’étais déjà remis puisque j’avais été malade sans fièvre, et l’attente de Pomptinus, dont aucune rumeur ne nous était encore parvenue, me retenaient depuis déjà douze jours à Brindes. Mais nous attendions une possibilité de traversée.

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