Marcus Tullius Cicero→Marcus Tullius Tiro|c. 47 BC|Cicero|From Rome|To Patrae|Human translated
Your health troubles me, so help me; but I am confident that if you apply the care you have begun, you will soon be strong. Arrange the books; make a catalogue when Metrodorus pleases, since we must live by his decision. As for the gardener, as you think best. You can watch the gladiators on the Kalends and come back the day after; I think you should. But as you think best. If you love me, take good care of yourself. Farewell.
DCXC (Fam. XVI, 20) TO TIRO (AT TUSCULUM) ROME (DECEMBER) Upon my life, my dear Tiro , your health makes me very uneasy. But I feel confident that if you continue to take the same care as you have begun to do, you will soon be strong. Arrange the books, get the catalogue made when it pleases Metrodorus , since you have to live according to his orders. Settle with the gardener as you think right. You can go to see the gladiators on the first, and return home next day. And I think that is what you had better do. But as you please. Take great care of yourself, if you love me. Good-bye.
XX. Scr. eodem anno, quo Ep. XVIII. TULLIUS TIRONI SAL.
Sollicitat, ita vivam, me tua, mi Tiro, valetudo; sed confido, si diligentiam, quam instituisti, adhibueris, cito te firmum fore. Libros compone; indicem, quum Metrodoro libebit, quoniam eius arbitratu vivendum est. Cum olitore, ut videtur. Tu potes Kalendis spectare gladiatores, postridie redire, et ita censeo; verum, ut videbitur. Cura te, si me amas, diligenter. Vale.
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Your health troubles me, so help me; but I am confident that if you apply the care you have begun, you will soon be strong. Arrange the books; make a catalogue when Metrodorus pleases, since we must live by his decision. As for the gardener, as you think best. You can watch the gladiators on the Kalends and come back the day after; I think you should. But as you think best. If you love me, take good care of yourself. Farewell.
Human translation - ToposText / Shuckburgh
Latin / Greek Original
XX. Scr. eodem anno, quo Ep. XVIII. TULLIUS TIRONI SAL.
Sollicitat, ita vivam, me tua, mi Tiro, valetudo; sed confido, si diligentiam, quam instituisti, adhibueris, cito te firmum fore. Libros compone; indicem, quum Metrodoro libebit, quoniam eius arbitratu vivendum est. Cum olitore, ut videtur. Tu potes Kalendis spectare gladiatores, postridie redire, et ita censeo; verum, ut videbitur. Cura te, si me amas, diligenter. Vale.