Letters to Atticus

Cicero

Translated by E. O. Winstedt

256 chapters · about 7 h

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The opening

I CICERO TO ATTICUS, GREETING.

CICERO TO ATTICUS, GREETING.

I did give L. Saufeius a letter, one for you alone, because, though I had no time to write, I was reluctant that so intimate an acquaintance of yours should come.to you without a note from me. But, considering the pace of philosophers, I imagine the present letter will reach you first. If, however, you have got that earlier letter now, you will know that I arrived at Athens on Oct. 14; that on disembarking at the port I received your letter from our friend Acastus; that, perturbed though I was at your arrival in Rome with a fever, nevertheless I began to take heart at Acastus’ welcome announcement of your convalescence; but shivered myself at your news of Caesar’s legions, and pleaded with you to beware lest friend Philotimus’ time-serving injure us. As for the point I touched on long ago (misrepresented to you by Turranius at Brundisium, as I gathered from a letter received from that good fellow Xeno), I set forth briefly the reason why I had not put my brother in charge of the province. Those practically were the topics of that letter. Now hear what remains.

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About this edition

The words
E. O. Winstedt's English translation, copied word for word.
Left out
  • Page numbers and running heads from the printed pages, in 8 places
  • The title page and opening pages before chapter 1
  • The series page ("THE LOEB CLASSICAL LIBRARY ... EDITED BY T. E. PAGE ...") (8 blocks)
  • The printing history and printer's line ("First printed 1913 ... Printed in Great Britain") (3 blocks)
  • The printed table of contents (the app makes its own)
  • A preface, foreword or afterword
  • The half-title "CICERO'S LETTERS TO ATTICUS / BOOK VII" (the Book's heading is kept where the letters begin) (3 blocks)
  • Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 4 places
  • The index
  • The printer's signature marks at page feet ("VOL. II. B") (14 blocks)
  • The source website's menus, layout and notices
  • Other material that isn't the author's, in 3 places
  • A line of specks read by the OCR as punctuation only ("; :")