Letters to Atticus Passage 1

cum quod scriberem ad te nihil haberem, tamen ne quem diem intermitterem has dedi litteras. A. d. vi K. Caesarem Sinuessae mansurum nuntiabant. ab eo mihi litterae redditae sunt a. d. vii K. quibus iam opes meas, non ut superioribus litteris opem exspectat. cum eius clementiam Corfiniensem illam per litteras conlaudavissem rescripsit hoc exemplo:

Although I had nothing to write to you, I dispatched this letter so as not to let a day pass. They reported that Caesar would stay at Sinuessa on 27 March. A letter from him was delivered to me on 26 March in which he now expects “my resources,” not merely “my assistance,” as in his earlier letter. After I had praised in a letter his famous clemency at Corfinium, he replied in these words:

Bien que je n'eusse rien à t'écrire, je t'ai envoyé cette lettre pour ne laisser passer aucun jour. On annonçait que César séjournerait à Sinuessa le 27 mars. J'ai reçu de lui, le 26, une lettre où il attend désormais mes ressources, au pluriel, et non plus mon assistance, au singulier, comme dans ses lettres précédentes. Comme j'avais hautement loué par lettre la clémence qu'il avait montrée à Corfinium, il m'a répondu en ces termes: