Ad Familiares 16.19
Ad Familiares 16.19
Headnote
Cicero from his Tusculan villa to Tiro in Rome, a short covering note from the summer of 45 BC. The Perseus dateline places it “a little after the beginning of Sextilis (August) 709” (c.\ mid-August 45). Tiro is again away on errands.
The letter is almost telegraphic: send Demetrius back, finish the Aufidius business, and if that is not what is keeping you, fly here. “I am waiting for your letters on a number of matters — and for you yourself much more” opens with the affectionate impatience that defines the cluster; it ends, in three syllables of Latin, with vale.
I am waiting for your letters on a number of matters — and for you yourself much more. Send our Demetrius back to me, and whatever else of any good you can manage. On the Aufidius account I have no exhortation for you; I know you have it in hand — only finish it. And if that is what is keeping you, I accept the cause; if it is not what is holding you, fly here. I am waiting hard for your letter. Farewell.
exspecto tuas litteras de multis rebus, te ipsum multo magis. Demetrium redde nostrum et aliud, si quid potest boni. de Aufidiano nomine nihil te hortor; scio tibi curae esse; sed confice. et, si ob eam rem moraris, accipio causam; si id te non tenet, advola. Litteras tuas valde exspecto. vale.