B.C. 45, ÆT. 61 been married before: that the ladies did not accept his proposal because they found that his property did not amount to more than 800 sestertia. I thought you ought to know this.[1]
DCIV (A XIII, 29, §§ 2, 3)
TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)
Tusculum (27 May)
I was informed about the suburban pleasure-grounds by your
letter and by Chrysippus. In the villa, the vulgarity of
which I have known of old, I see that nothing or very little
has been changed: however, he praises the larger bath, and
says that of the smaller one winter apartments might be
made. Therefore, a small covered passage will have to be
added, the building of which on the same scale as the one I
constructed at Tusculum will cost about half less in that
district. For the erection of the fane also, which I desire,
nothing could be better suited than the grove which I used
to know. But at that time it was not at all frequented, now
I hear it is very much so. I couldn't have anything I
should like better. In this matter "in heaven's name indulge
my whim."[2] All I have to say more is—if Faberius pays his
debt, don't stop to inquire the price: outbid Otho. I don't
think, however, that he will lose his head about it, for I
think I know the man. Moreover, I am told that he has
been so hard hit, that I don't think that he is a buyer.
Otherwise would he have let it come to the hammer? But
why discuss that? If you get the money from Faberius, let
us purchase even at a high price: if not, we can't do it even
at a low one. So then we must go to Clodia. From her
also I seem to have more hope, because, in the first place,The last word—of which
the Latin morigerari is a translation—seems only to occur in Acts, xiii.
18.]
