Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero
statesman · lawyer · Roman Republic · 106–43 BC
A Roman lawyer and statesman. More than 900 of his letters to friends and family survive.
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46 BC
If you have a garden in your library, nothing will be lacking.
si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil.Letters to Friends 9.4, to Varro
April 45 BC · His answer, written alone at a villa by the sea after his daughter's death
Yes, Servius, I do wish, as you write, that you had been with me in this heaviest of blows. How much you could have helped me by your presence, consoling me and grieving almost as much as I, I can easily tell from this: reading your letter, I found some rest.
Ego vero, Servi, vellem, ut scribis, in meo gravissimo casu affuisses; quantum enim praesens me adiuvare potueris et consolando et prope aeque dolendo, facile ex eo intelligo, quod litteris lectis aliquantum acquievi.Letters to Friends 4.6, to Servius Sulpicius
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