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Cicero

Letters to Atticus Passage 1

Passage 630 of 1,479

Canonical reference 8.7.1

Latin

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unum etiam restat amico nostro ad omne dedecus ut Domitio non subveniat. at nemo dubitat quin subsidio venturus sit. ego non puto. deseret igitur talem civem et eos quos una scis esse cum habeat praesertim is ipse cohortis triginta? nisi me omnia fallunt, deseret. incredibiliter pertimuit, nihil spectat nisi fugam.

English AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Only one thing remains to complete our friend's disgrace: that he should fail to aid Domitius. But no one doubts that he will come to his relief. I do. Will he then desert such a citizen and those whom you know to be with him, especially when he himself has thirty cohorts? Unless everything deceives me, he will. He is unbelievably frightened and thinks of nothing but flight.

French AI-generated translation, non-official

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

Il ne manque plus à notre ami, pour achever son déshonneur, que de ne pas secourir Domitius. Mais personne ne doute qu’il ne vienne à son aide. Moi, je ne le crois pas. Il abandonnera donc un citoyen de cette valeur et ceux que tu sais être avec lui, bien qu’il ait lui-même trente cohortes ? Si tout ne me trompe, il les abandonnera. Il a été pris d’une peur incroyable ; il ne songe qu’à fuir.

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