DCLVI (A XIII, 39)
TO ATTICUS (AT ROME)
Tusculum, 5 August
What astonishing duplicity! He writes to his father that he
must abstain from entering his house on account of his
mother: to his mother he writes a letter full of affection!
My brother however is taking it more easily, and says that
his son has reason for being angry with him. But I am
following your advice: for I see that your opinion is in
favour of "crooked ways." I shall come to Rome, as you
think I ought, but sorely against the grain: for I cling
strongly to my writing. "You will find Brutus," say you,
"on the same journey." No doubt. But had it not been
for this affair, that inducement would not have overcome my
reluctance. For he has not come from a quarter which I
should have preferred, nor has he been long away, nor has
he written a syllable to me. But after all I am anxious to
know what the net result of his trip has been to him. Please
send me the books of which I wrote to you before, and
especially Phædrus[1] "On Gods" and . . .[2]was
found at Herculaneum.]have been proposed by
various editors.]
- ↑ An Athenian Epicurean philosopher, whose lectures Cicero had himself attended (de Fin. i. § 16; see vol. ii., p. 28). Cicero used his work largely in the de Natura Deorum, on which he is now engaged. A fragment believed to be part of the treatise of Phædrus [Greek: peri theôn
- ↑ The title of the second book mentioned is unintelligible in the MSS. [Greek: peri Pallados, Hellados, Apollodôrou
