Selected Letters by Cicero

Author:Cicero
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literary Collections, Letters, History, Ancient, Rome, Biography & Autobiography, Historical, Ancient & Classical
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2005-09-29T05:08:51+00:00

67

CICERO TO ATTICUS

Formiae, 1 March 49

My clerk’s hand will serve as an indication of my ophthalmia and likewise as an excuse for brevity, not that there is anything to say now. My whole mind is fixed in expectation of news from Brundisium. If Caesar has found our Gnaeus there, there is a faint hope of peace, but if he has crossed over beforehand, there is the fear of a deadly war.

But do you see what sort of man this is into whose hands the state has fallen, how clever, alert, well prepared? I verily believe that if he takes no lives and touches no man’s property those who dreaded him most will become his warmest admirers. Both town and country people talk to me a great deal. They really think of nothing except their fields and their bits of farms and investments. And look how the tables are turned! They fear the man they used to trust and love the man they used to dread. I cannot think without distress of the blunders and faults on our side which have led to this result. My forecast of what impends I have already given you and I am now waiting to hear from you.

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