Lettres à Atticus Passage 1

o mirificum Dolabellam meum! iam enim dico meum; antea, crede mihi, subdubitabam. magnam ἀναθεώρησιν res habet, de saxo, in crucem, columnam tollere, locum illum sternendum locare! quid quaeris? heroica. sustulisse mihi videtur simulationem desideri adhuc quae serpebat in dies, et inveterata verebar ne periculosa nostris tyrannoctonis esset.

What a marvellous fellow my Dolabella is! I now call him mine, for previously, believe me, I had some doubts. His action gives cause for a great revision of judgment: throwing men from the Rock, crucifying them, removing the column, and contracting for the paving of that place! In short, it is heroic. He seems to me to have removed the pretended regret for Caesar that until now had been creeping onward day by day. I feared that, if it became established, it would prove dangerous to our tyrannicides.

Ô mon merveilleux Dolabella! Je dis désormais «mon» Dolabella; auparavant, crois-moi, j’avais encore quelques doutes. Son action comporte une grande ἀναθεώρησις, une révision de mon jugement: précipiter les coupables de la roche Tarpéienne, les mettre en croix, enlever la colonne, adjuger le pavage de cet endroit! Que veux-tu savoir? Ce sont des actes héroïques. Il me semble avoir supprimé cette feinte nostalgie qui se propageait de jour en jour; je craignais qu’en s’enracinant elle ne devînt dangereuse pour nos tyrannicides.