Certaine epistles of Tully verbally translated: together with a short treatise, containing an order of instructing youth in grammer, and withall the use and benefite of verball translations

Cicero S. D. Cassio. 44 12 8

I thinke

you haue intelligence of

the wicked pranke

& passing great levity

and

inconstancy

of your kinsman Le∣pidus,

from the things re∣gistred

which

I am well assured

was sent

vnto you.

Therefore

the warre being en∣ded

as

we did thinke,

we

do make warre a∣fresh:

and rely

v. and haue

our whole trust

on Decius Brutus,

and

Plancus:

if

you will haue the ve∣ry trueth of it

on your selfe,

and

on my Brutus,

not onely

for a present refuge,

if,

which

I am very loath,

v. I would not

any misfortune

shall fall out,

but also

for the confirmation

of a perpetuall liber∣ty.

We heard

here

of Dolabella,

as we wished:

but

we had not

knowen reporters

v▪ sure Authors.

Know

that you are

a great man,

both

in the present conceit of men,

and

in the expected hope,

v. in the expectati∣on,

of the time to come.

This being set before

you,

see

that

you striue

to the vpshot.

v. to the highest.

There is nothing

so difficult,

which

the citizens of Rome

v. the people of R,

thinkes not

may

be atchiued

and

gotten

by you

Fare you well.