B.C. 45, ÆT. 61 he comes to town. So by this time they have been presented and the matter is out of your hands. Ah, well, if you could but know what a risk you are running! Or perhaps my letter has caused you to put it off, though you had not read it when you wrote your last. I am therefore in a flutter to know how the matter stands.[1]
About Brutus's affection and the walk you had together, though you have nothing new to tell me, only the old story, yet the oftener I hear it the more I like it. It gives me the greater gratification that you find pleasure in it, and I feel all the surer of it that it is you who report it.
DCXLI (A XIII, 43)
TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)
Tusculum, 14 July
Yes, I shall avail myself of the postponement of the day;[2] and
it was exceedingly kind of you to inform me, especially as I
received the letter at a time when I wasn't expecting one,
and you wrote it from your seat at the games.[3] I have in
any case some matters of business to attend to at Rome, but
I will settle them two days later.[Footnote: 2 Of the auction, which had been fixed for the 15th.]
[Footnote: 3 The games of Apollo, which were on the 12th and following days of July.]
- ↑ Varro was the most learned man of the day, and his opinion was as important as a review in "The Times" for the success of a book. Still this extraordinary nervousness as to his being pleased or not seems a little exaggerated.
