Cicero to Atticus from the Tusculan villa, 29 June 44 BC — Perseus dateline Scr. in Tusculano iii K. Quint. a. 710 (44). A one-section note, hurried and consultative. The plan to leave Italy under cover of the Dolabellan legation, on which 15.20 was so bleak, is now a logistical problem: when to sail, by what route, and whether the trip can be reckoned to last only to the Kalends of January. Cicero asks Atticus to throw his weight into the planning (“bend yourself to that concern; it is a great matter”), and wants the date of the Eleusinian mysteries because a winter voyage is hateful and the festival fixes the calendar at the Athens end. He still expects to see Brutus, and means to leave Tusculum on the day before the Kalends of July — 30 June. The daggered passage about Olympia and the mysteries is a textual crux; Cicero is plainly asking Atticus for a date, but the syntax in the manuscripts is broken.