M.T.Ciceronis Epistolae Ad Atticum, Ad Quintum Fratrem Et Quae Vulgo Ad Familiares Dicuntur, Temporis Ordine Dispositae, Volume 1...: Cicero, Marcus Tullius: Amazon.com.tr Our old regiment of loyalists is warm in its zeal and attachment to me. Or even that I did not wish to see you? Brother! MARCUS QUINTO FRATRI SAL. Thence he has made his way to Asia. but that you should regulate your confidence by the trustworthiness of its recipient. come from your province do make one reservation in the extremely high praise which they bestow on your virtue, integrity, and kindness—it is that of sharpness of temper. For if any of them in the course of the last two years has never fallen under suspicion of rapacity, as I am told about Caesius and Chaerippus and Labeo—and think it true, because I know them—there is no authority, I think, which may not be entrusted to them, and no confidence which may not be placed in them with the utmost propriety, and in anyone else like them. Romae a. u. c. 694. In sending letters of requisition, as I have often told you, you have allowed yourself to be too easily persuaded. Epistulae ad Quintum fratrem. I For if you only excel your neighbours farther up country, in Cilicia and Syria, that is a pretty thing to boast of! That the inhabitants are not being ruined by your progresses, drained by your charges, agitated by your approach? Oh that I could have left you to survive, not my life merely, but my undiminished rank! how violent! Whatever I have written to you in a tone of remonstrance or reproach I have written from a vigilant caution, which I maintain, and shall maintain; and I shall not cease imploring you to do the same. But my discourse, I know not how, has slipped into the didactic vein, though that is not what I proposed to myself originally. attributed to you when Candidate for the aedileship is not proved by false testimony to be yours. deeds are not so easy as words. And since men ought to feel most vexed at what has been brought upon them by their own fault, it is I who ought in this matter to be more vexed than you. did not I do everything to appease L. Caecilius? But it is of little avail that justice is administered by yourself with impartiality and care, unless the same is done by those to whom you have entrusted any portion of this duty. any who, while foregoing for the sake of money all from which we can scarcely tear ourselves away, EPISTULAE AD QUINTUM FRATREM ex. Cicero et amabat ut fratrem et iam ut maiorem fratrem verebatur? This strictness on his part would have been thought harsh, had it not been rendered palatable by many sweetening influences of courtesy. For many things which may, with perfect propriety, be in-trusted to slaves, must yet not be so entrusted, for the sake of avoiding talk and hostile remark. and your "die, once for all." However, I stopped these Complaints by taking up this position—what they think of it in Asia I don't know, in Rome it meets with no little approval and praise—I refused to accept a sum of money which the states had decreed for a temple and monument in our honour, though they had done so with the greatest enthusiasm in view both of my services and of your most valuable benefactions; and though the law contained a special and distinct exception in these words, "that it was lawful to receive for temple or monument"; and though again the money was not going to be thrown away, but would be employed on decorating a temple, and would thus appear to have been given to the Roman people and Terentia also I would ask you to protect, and to write me word on every subject. In that matter, indeed, many write to me at great length and declare that they have hopes; but I personally cannot see what hope there is, since my enemies have the greatest influence, while my friends have in some cases deserted, in others even betrayed me, fearing perhaps in my restoration a censure on their own treacherous conduct. In the next place, I dreaded the renewed lamentation which our meeting would cause : while I could not have borne your departure, and was afraid of the very thing you mention in your letter—that you would be unable to tear yourself away. But if I had seen you receiving the prolongation of a command in a great and dangerous war, I should have trembled in spirit, because I should have. In my opinion all who govern others are bound to regard as the object of all their actions the greatest happiness of the governed. [Note] Finally, you should think of this—that you are not seeking glory for yourself alone (and even if that were the case, you still ought not to be careless of it, especially as you had determined to consecrate the memory of your name by the most splendid monuments), but you have to share it with me, and to hand it down to our children. Now, if you will refer to the exhortations in all my letters, you will perceive that I have never found fault with you for anything except harshness and sharpness of temper, and occasionally, though rarely, for want of caution in the letters you write. Recognovit Brevique Adnotatione Critica Instruxit Ludovicus Claude Purser by M. Tullius Cicero; Ludovicus [Ludwig] Claude Purser (Ed. ) Accedit Q. Tulli Ciceronis Commentariolum Petitionis. And this I say, not to induce you to act thus, but to make you glad that you are acting or have acted so. have spread to others, we are bound to repay them, above all things, what we received from them. In short, he was much annoyed, complained of it to me in strong terms, and begged me to write to you as seriously as I could. But I, who when I read your writing seem to hear your voice, and when I write to you seem to be talking to you, am therefore always best pleased with your longest letter, and in writing am often somewhat prolix myself. 2 Cum scripsissem haec infima, quae sunt mea manu, venit ad nos Cicero tuus ad coenam, cum Pomponia foris coenaret. all inordinate desires, the keeping a check upon one's staff, courtesy in hearing causes, in listening to and admitting suitor—all this is rather a question of credit than of difficulty: Epistulae AD Quintum Fratrem by Cicero, 1965, Heimeran edition, in German / Deutsch Take the case of the famous Cyrus, portrayed by Xenophon, not as an historical character, but as a model of righteous government, the serious dignity of whose character is represented by that philosopher as combined with a peculiar courtesy. M. Tullii Ciceronis Epistolae Ad Quintum Fratrem. I don't blame you for having been somewhat harsh to his father, for I am quite sure you have acted with good reason: but what need was there of a letter of the sort which you sent to the man himself? Can I ever refrain from thinking of you or ever think of you without tears? For I am far from thinking, especially since the moral sentiments of Let your marshal hold the rank which our ancestors wished him to hold, who, looking upon this place as not one of profit, but of labour and duty, scarcely ever conferred it upon any but their freedmen, whom they indeed controlled almost as absolutely as their slaves. In this matter, and on this subject generally, please listen to a short statement, lest you should by chance be surprised at my having become so conciliatory towards Greeks. How many tears do you suppose these very words have Cost me? search; report a problem; Please refresh the home page in your browser! However, of the new tribunes there is one, it is true, most warmly attached to me—Sestius—and I hope Curius, Milo, Fadius. [Note] Such a state of things was not put before me when I was leaving Rome, but I often used to be told that I was certain to return in three days with the greatest >Žclat. For I shall not be ashamed to go so far—especially as my life and achievements have been such as to exclude any suspicion of sloth or frivolity—as to confess that, whatever I have accomplished, I have accomplished by means of those studies and principles which have been transmitted to us in Greek literature and schools of thought. Ad Quintum fratrem I – 4 : Amabo te, mi frater, ne, si uno meo factoet tuet mones mei corruistis, improbitatiet sceleri meo potius quam imprudentiae miseriaeque assignes: nullum est meum peccatum, nisi quod iis credidi, a quibus nefas putaram esse me decipi, autetiam, quibus ne id … How prevalent and how formidable that talk was Statius ascertained himself on his arrival. and a great selection of related books, art … But this you will keep dark for fear they might injure you. On this head many rules may be laid down, but this is at once the shortest and most easily maintained—that they should behave during your progresses in Asia as though you were travelling on the Appian way, and not suppose that it makes any difference whether they have arrived at Tralles or Formiae. But if it was you who, above all others, assisted me to gain a most splendid reputation, you will certainly also labour more than others to enable me to retain it. XXIX (Q FR I, 1) TO HIS BROTHER QUINTUS (IN ASIA) ROME (DECEMBER) ch. Epistulae ad Brutum. Allienus, again, is ours, as well in heart and affection, as in his conformity to our principles. 10. Rather I grieve that their orphan state will cause you no less sorrow than it does me. For if he had been brought into court, he ought perhaps not to have been allowed to escape: but there was no necessity for his being hunted out and inveigled by soft words to stand a trial, as you say in your letter—especially as he is one whom I learn daily, both from his fellow citizens and from many others, to be a man of higher character than you would expect from such an obscure town as his. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. For disinterested conduct on one's own part, the suppression of For my part, I should never have thought you deserving of the least blame in any respect, considering the extreme purity of your conduct, had it not been that our enemies are numerous. And since chance has assigned to me among the magistracies the Conduct of public business in the city, to you that in a province, if my share is inferior to no one's, take care that yours surpasses others. Wherefore keep a good heart and high hopes. When he was telling me the same story as you mention in your letter about what M. Cascellius had said to him in conversation, I stopped him from farther talk, and admitted him to my society. Fragmenta epistularem. [Note], Now, however, as you are about to quit your province, pray do leave behind you—as I think you are now doing—as pleasant a memory as possible. For, to begin with, I had never suspected him, nor in what I wrote to you about him was I expressing my own judgment; but since the interest and safety of all of us who take part in public business depends, not on truth alone, but on report also, I wrote you word of what people were saying, not what I thought myself. I to be angry with you! But in giving you this advice, as I have from the first, I am well aware how much good I have done. The partisans of Sulla were forced to restore what they had taken by violence and terrorism. In which conduct he would perhaps have been thought over-lax, had it not been that this laxity enabled him to maintain the following in stance of severity. how irritable! For you will continue to compel all in the future, as you have compelled them in the past, to praise your equity, self-control, strictness, and honesty. nor those to refuse his services who have asked for them. Moreover, is the praetor wont to decide whether a debt is due ? Epistulae ad Quintum fratrem (en català: Cartes al seu germà Quint) és el nom donat al recull de cartes enviades per Ciceró al seu germà Quint entre els anys 60 i 54 aC, publicat segurament per Àtic en algun moment entre la mort de l'orador i la seva (), segons Carcopino, l'any 33 aC; i … Now for the news that you chiefly desire. known that the dominion of fortune over us had been at the same time prolonged. How often, do you suppose, has he himself, while talking without reserve to me, made such observations as, "I never approved of that," "I told him so," "I tried to persuade him," "I warned him not to"? which does not daily occur to your mind without anybody's exhortation. I know that the trouble is exceedingly great, and such as demands the very greatest prudence; but remember But in these matters I am sure that mere experience has by this time taught you that it is by no means sufficient to have these virtues yourself, but that you must keep your eyes open and vigilant, in order that in the guardianship of your province you may be considered to vouch to the allies, the citizens, and the state, not for yourself alone, but for all the subordinates of your government. affection and loyalty. What an immense benefit, again, have you done in having liberated Asia from the tribute exacted by the aediles, a measure which cost me some violent controversies! Marcus Tullius Cicero (3. januar 106 f.Kr.- 7. desember 43 f.Kr.) I shall retain my life as long as I shall think that it is in your interest for me to do so, or that it ought to be preserved with a view to future hope. Afterwards a certain Plato of Sardis, who is often at Athens, and happened to be at Athens at the time that Licinius arrived there, having subsequently learnt by a letter from Aesopus that he was an escaped slave, arrested the fellow, and put him into confinement at Ephesus; but whether into the public prison, or into a slave mill, we could not clearly make out from his letter. For all who. He is bound both to act with propriety.
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