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

C. Trebonius S.D. Ciceroni. 48 12 16

If

you be in health

it is well,

I came

to Athens

about the eleventh of y^e Kalends of Iune.

i. a.t. one and twenti∣eth of May.

And

there

the thing that

I most of all wished

I saw

your sonne,

much addicted to his study

v. giuen to the best studies

and in a singular note

of modesty,

from which occasion

how great pleasure

I tooke,

you may

perceiue

though I be silent

for you are not igno∣rant

how highly

I esteeme of you:

and how,

for our most ancient & true loues sake,

I do rejoyce

in euery least benefit of yours,

and not in so great a commodity alone.

My good Cicero,

do not thinke,

that I speake this to flatter you.

v. mee to giue this to your eares

No man

v. nothing,

is

either

better beloued

of all them

which

are

at Athens

or

more studious

of those Arts,

which

you loue

most of all,

that is

the best,

then your yong son,

and so ours,

(for nothing

can

be

seuerall betwéene us)

v. put asunder from you to me,

Therefore

that that I may

truely performe.

I am very glad too

on your behalfe

and no lesse likewise

on our owne,

because

we finde

v. we haue

him,

whom

we were of necessity

to loue,

what a one soeuer

hee had bene,

such a one,

that

gladly also

we may loue him.

Who

when

he had, as wee were talking, glancing∣ly insinuated,

v. he had cast in to me in speach,

that he was desirous

to goe and see

Asia:

not onely

was he wished,

but also

earnestly intreated

by mee

to do it

v. that he would do it.

aboue all things

v. chiefly

seeing I had gotten

v. we obtaining. n. plu.

pro sing.

that province.

Vnto whom

you ought not

to call in question

v. to doubt

that we will perform

your office

both

in kindnesse

and

loue.

Hereof also

will we haue a care

v. shall be to us a care

that Cratippus

bee

together with him too

y^t you shold not think

that hee shall play the loiterer

v. that he s. make ho∣liday

in Asia

from those studies

whereunto

he is prouoked

by our encourage∣ment

or

we will not cease

to pricke forward

v. to exhort

him that is ready.

as

I perceiue,

and

gone on

a very round pase,

to the end that

day by day

he may proceed

forth,

by learning

and exercising

himselfe.

I know not

what

you were a doing

in y^e common-wealth

when

I did send

this letter.

I heard report of

certaine seditious matters,

which

verely

I desire

may not be so:

v. to be false

that

we may once enjoy

a peaceable liberty:

which thing

hitherto

in no least measure

v. no whit at all

hath betided

me.

Yet

having gotten

in our sayling

a little spare leasure,

I haue prepared

a present

v. a little gift

for you

according to may pur∣pose

and

haue concluded

y^e graue sayings,

v. the sayings

uttered

by you

to my great credit,

v. with our g. honour

and

I haue set your name

after all

v. beneath

in which sentences

v. in w. little verses,

if

in some words

I shall seeme

unto you

ouerplain in speaking

The villany

v. the filthinesse

of that person

against whom

wee are very bitterly incensed,

v. we are caried more freely

will excuse

us.

You shal also pardon

my angrinesse

n. plu. pro sing.

which

is

iust

against such

both

men

and

subiects.

Further

how

may

Lucilius

rather then

we

take unto him

this liberty?

When

although

hee did as bitterly as I do hate them

v. he hath bene equal in hatred against them

whom

he hurt:

yet

doubtlesse

hath he not had

any y^e more deserued

v. more worthy

against whom

he might inueigh,

v. he mighi run upon

with so great liberty

of words.

you

as

you promised

me,

shall put

mee,

as soone as you may,

into your dialogues,

v. into your speches,

for

I make no doubt

hereof

but that

if

you write

any thing

of Caesars death

you cannot suffer

mee to haue the least portion in

v. mee to beare the least part, id est, you shall not suffer me, to bee put in the last place amongst them, which slew Caesar, and are be∣loved of you

both

the action

and

your loue.

Fare you well.

and

regard

v. haue

my mother

and my friends

committed

to your charge.

sent

the eighth of the Ka∣lends of Iune.

id est. the five and twentieth of May.

from Athens.