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Cicero
Letters to Atticus Passage 7
Passage 518 of 1,479
Canonical reference 7.2.7
Latin
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de raudusculo Numeriano multum te amo. Hortensius quid egerit aveo scire, Cato quid agat; qui quidem in me turpiter fuit malevolus. dedit integritatis, iustitiae, clementiae, fidei mihi testimonium quod non quaerebam; quod postulabam id negavit. itaque Caesar iis litteris quibus mihi gratulatur et omnia pollicetur quo modo exsultat Catonis in me ingratissimi iniuria! at hic idem Bibulo dierum xx . ignosce mihi; non possum haec ferre nec feram.
English AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
I am very grateful to you for that little Numerian debt. I am eager to know what Hortensius has done and what Cato is doing. Cato, indeed, behaved disgracefully and maliciously toward me. He gave me a testimonial to integrity, justice, clemency, and good faith, which I had not asked for; what I did ask for, he refused. And so, in the letter in which Caesar congratulates me and promises everything, how he exults over the affront done me by that most ungrateful Cato! Yet this same Cato granted Bibulus twenty days. Forgive me. I cannot bear this, and I shall not.
French AI-generated translation, non-official
Codex gpt-5.6-sol · Non-official working translation · 2026-09-11
Pour la petite somme de Numérius, je t’aime beaucoup. Je brûle de savoir ce qu’a fait Hortensius et ce que fait Caton; celui-ci s’est vraiment montré honteusement malveillant envers moi. Il a rendu sur mon intégrité, ma justice, ma clémence et ma loyauté un témoignage que je ne demandais pas; ce que je réclamais, il me l’a refusé. Aussi, dans la lettre où César me félicite et me promet tout, comme il exulte de l’injustice commise contre moi par Caton, le plus ingrat des hommes! Et pourtant ce même Caton accorde vingt jours à Bibulus. Pardonne-moi: je ne puis supporter cela, et je ne le supporterai pas.
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