Letters to Quintus Passage 1

gaudeo tibi iucundas esse meas litteras, nec tamen habuissem scribendi nunc quidem ullum argumentum nisi tuas accepissem. nam pridie Idus, cum Appius senatum infrequentem coegisset, tantum fuit frigus ut populi convicio coactus sit nos dimittere.

I am glad that my letters please you, though just now I would have had no subject for writing if I had not received yours. On the day before the Ides, when Appius had convened a poorly attended senate, the cold was so intense that the people's jeering forced him to dismiss us.

Je suis heureux que mes lettres te soient agréables. Je n’aurais pourtant eu maintenant aucun sujet d’écrire si je n’avais reçu les tiennes. Car, le 12, Appius avait réuni un Sénat peu nombreux, mais le froid fut si vif que les clameurs du peuple le contraignirent à nous congédier.