Ad Atticum 3.27
Ad Atticum 3.27
Headnote
Cicero to Atticus, written at Dyrrachium in late January 57 BC. The first letter of the recovery year. Atticus has reported the news of the early-January attempts at the recall: a tribunician bill of L. Ninnius and the Lentulan senatus consultum had both been blocked by Clodian violence in the Forum, and Q. Fabricius’s bill of 23 January had been broken up with bloodshed. “Utterly destroyed” is the rhetoric of the moment; in the event the recovery effort would resume in spring under Pompey’s open backing.
From your letter, and from the matter itself, I see that we are utterly destroyed. I beg you that, in whatever matters my people will need yours, you not fail us in our miseries. I shall, as you write, see you soon.
ex tuis litteris et ex re ipsa nos funditus perisse video. te oro ut quibus in rebus tui mei indigebunt nostris miseriis ne desis. ego te, ut scribis, cito videbo.