Cicero's letters Flashcards
5.7 To Pompey 62BC
‘trusting so completely in you’
‘a much greater man than Africanus’ ‘not one much inferior to Laelius’
‘association in politics and friendship’
‘I did expect some congratulation’
2.4 To Curio 53BC
‘I do not think there could be a good citizen who could laugh at this time’
‘I do not dare write what I feel, and do not wish to write what I don’t feel’
‘urge you to aim for the highest praise’
‘extraordinary expectations people have for you’
‘demonstrate my love for you’
2.11 To Caelius 4th April 50BC
‘how I long for Rome… long for my friends in particular yourself’
‘not worthy of a man of my dignity’
‘great war hanging above us’
‘now, about the panthers’
‘for I shall regard which I get from you to be the most trustworthy information’
9.11 To Caesar 20th march 49BC
JC had asked for his ‘advise and status… influence and help’
‘your singular wisdom and outstanding statesmanship’
‘pursue negotiations for peace’
‘I beg and implore you with all my heart to spare some time’
‘your honour and the Republic is also at stake’
‘a friend of peace and you both’
‘most appropriate agent for restoring harmony between you two’
10.28 To Trebonius 2nd February 43BC
‘most beautiful feast on the Ides of March’
‘dishonourable departure of Antony’
‘I restore to the weary and wilting Senate its ancient and traditional valour’
‘ I have devoted every moment to not only thinking about the republic, but being active in it’
‘the boy Caesar is excellent, and I have great hopes for his future’
10.6 To Plancus 20th March 43BC
‘for you are a agent of peace’
Brutus- ‘most distinguished man
MA- ‘gang of vile brigands’
‘I would never think yourself to be without good judgement’
‘these will be regarded not as badges of honour, but as empty titles, unless you join yourself with the freedom of the Roman people and the authority of the Senate’
your opportunity’
2.18 To Atticus 59BC
‘we fear death and exile as greater evils, when really they are the lesser ones’
‘universal feeling of despair’
‘cannot write without the greatest pain’
‘I am invited by Caesar in a very gentlemanly manner to join his staff’
‘I don’t like running away; I am longing to fight’
‘ardently desire, you were here; then I should not want for advise or consolation’
8.8 To Atticus 49BC
‘Oh what dishonourable and miserable thing!’
‘For I feel misery lies mainly or solely in dishonour’
He developed Caesar, then began to fear him; he rejected all offers of peace; he made no preparations for war; he left Rome…’
‘Pompey bids a long good bye to honour’
‘I am too distressed to write much more- I hope for your letters’
9.4 To Atticus 12th March 49BC
‘Should one stay in one’s country if it’s under oppressive rule?’
‘gathering the arguments on either side in Latin or Greek’
13.30 To Atticus 17th August 45BC
‘Brutus reports that Caesar has joined the optimates? Good news! But where is he going to find them- unless he hangs himself?’ (true optimates dead?)
‘But what do you advise? Am I to remain here, or fly off to Rome?’
‘I am chopping and changing this way and that’
14.4 To Atticus 10th April 44BC
‘freedom has been restored without a free state’
‘Its horrible what talks and threats there are’
‘the Ides of march console us’
‘gloriously and magnificantly’
