Cicero 1

Question 1

Quod ad me scribis de sorore tua, testis erit tibi ipsa quantae mihi curae fuerit ut Quinti fratris animus in eam esset is qui esse deberet.

Answer 1

As to what you write to me about your sister, she herself will be a witness to you what a great matter of attention it will have been for me that the attitude of my brother Quintus towards her was what it should be.

Question 2

quem cum esse offensiorem arbitrarer, eas litteras ad eum misi quibus et placarem ut fratrem et monerem ut minorem et obiurgarem ut errantem.

Answer 2

Since I thought it was rather embittered, I sent the sort of letter to him by which I might not only calm him down as a brother, but also advise him as someone younger, and chide him as someone doing wrong.

Question 3

itaque ex iis quae postea saepe ab eo ad me scripta sunt confido ita esse omnia ut et oporteat et velimus.

Answer 3

And so from those things which he has often written to me since, I trust that everything is just both as it should be and (as) we would wish