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Cicero

Letters to Atticus Passage 2

Passage 672 of 1,479

Canonical reference 8.12B.2

Latin

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quam ob rem etiam atque etiam te rogo et hortor, id quod non destiti superioribus litteris a te petere, ut primo quoque die Luceriam advenires, ante quam copiae quas instituit Caesar contrahere in unum locum coactae vos a nobis distrahant. sed si erunt qui te impediant ut villas suas servent, aequum est me a te impetrare ut cohortis quae ex Piceno et Camerino venerunt, quae fortunas suas reliquerunt, ad me nussum facias.

English AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Therefore I ask and urge you again and again, as I have continually asked in earlier letters, to reach Luceria at the earliest possible moment, before the forces Caesar is arranging to concentrate in one place separate you from us. But if there are men preventing you so that they may protect their villas, it is fair that I should obtain from you the dispatch to me of the cohorts from Picenum and Camerinum, who have abandoned their own fortunes.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

C’est pourquoi je te demande et t’exhorte encore et encore, comme je n’ai cessé de le faire dans mes lettres précédentes, à parvenir à Lucérie au premier jour possible, avant que les troupes que César entreprend de concentrer en un seul lieu ne vous séparent de nous. Mais si certains t’empêchent de partir afin de sauver leurs propriétés, il est juste que j’obtienne de toi que tu m’envoies les cohortes venues du Picénum et de Camerinum, qui ont abandonné leurs biens.

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