Ad Atticum 3.6
Ad Atticum 3.6
Headnote
Cicero to Atticus, written 17 April 58 BC from the Tarentine country, the last letter from Italy in this correspondence. Atticus has not made it to either Tarentum or Brundisium for the meeting that had been the recurring hope of the late-59 letters; the consequence is that the matter of where Cicero should settle in Greece (Epirus, in Atticus’s own country, was the original plan) must now be decided without him. The new route is east into Asia, especially Cyzicus — though in fact Cicero would settle at Thessalonica. me vix misereque sustento: “I scarcely and wretchedly hold myself up.”
I had not doubted that I should see you at Tarentum or at Brundisium; and that mattered for many things — among them, that we might come to a halt in Epirus, and that we might use your counsel for the rest. Since this has not fallen out, this too shall be set among the great number of our evils. My route is into Asia, especially Cyzicus. My people I commend to you. I scarcely and wretchedly hold myself up. Sent the fourteenth day before the Kalends of May, from the Tarentine country.
non fuerat mihi dubium quin te Tarenti aut Brundisi visurus essem idque ad multa pertinuit, in eis et ut in Epiro consisteremus et de reliquis rebus tuo consilio uteremur. quoniam id non contigit, erit hoc quoque in magno numero nostrorum malorum. nobis iter est in Asiam, maxime Cyzicum. meos tibi commendo. me vix misereque sustento. data x iiii K. Maias de Tarentino.