Editiorial Annotations
VNE: verbum non exstat (venia nullo modo danda: this word does not exist and there shall be no mercy)
VNU:verbum non usitatum
NS: non sequitur (non agreement at lexical or sentence level)
HINS: Hoc illud non significat (this doesn’t mean that,i.e. what you think it does)
M: modus (mood of verb)
T: tempus verbi
C: casus
Plinius Explicatus
PLINIVS CALPVRNIAE SVAE S.
6.7.1.1
Scribis te absentia mea non mediocriter adfici unumque habere solacium, quod pro me libellos meos teneas, saepe etiam in uestigio meo colloces. Gratum est quod nos requiris, gratum quod his fomentis adquiescis; inuicem ego epistulastuas lectito atque identidem in manus quasi nouas sumo. Sed eo magis ad desiderium tui accendor: nam cuius litterae tantum habent suauitatis, huius sermonibus quantum dulcedinis inest! Tu tamen quam frequentissime scribe, licet hoc ita me delectet ut torqueat. Vale.
Ad Terentiam: selected letters
Auxilia Horace Ep. 1.9
All of the epistles are written in dactylic hexameter.
Claudius: Tiberius Claudius Nero
Septimius: also recipient of Odes 2.6 but otherwise unknown; in their (magisterial) commentary on that poem, Nisbet and Hubbard state (Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus], 6. in Robin G. M. Nisbet and Margaret Hubbard (eds), A Commentary on Horace: Odes, Book II; Published in print: 1978; Published online: July 2015):
“Septimius is described by Porphyrio as an eques Romanus who was a commilito of Horace; the latter statement is probably a bad guess, based on 8 militiaeand the supposed analogy of Pompeius in the next poem. Horace may have been considerably older, as he confidently expects to predecease his friend (22 ff.); when he recommends him to the young Tiberius, perhaps about 21 b.c. (epist. 1. 9), he is hardly speaking of a middle-aged contemporary. He describes Septimius in the epistle as fortem … bonumque (1. 9. 13); the compliment is conventional, yet fortem suggests the more active virtues. The ambitious young man did well in the imperial household, and was promoted in due course to the inner circle; the success of his career is shown by Augustus’s letter to Horace ‘tui qualem habeam memoriam poteris ex Septimio quoque nostro audire; nam incidit ut illo coram fieret a me tui mentio’ (Suet. vit. Hor. 30 ff. Rostagni).”
quanti: genitive of value
scilicet: apparently
legentis: genitive with Neronis
validius: comparative adverb
timui ne: fear clause
finxisse: from fingere: here “to misrepresent as”
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Ad Fam 13. 58
pervetus: per + vetus: very old
peto, petere: ask, seek + ab +abl (quaero, ere takes the same construction)
aditus: accusative plural
sed (peto) ut
prosum, prodesse + dative: be a benefit to
etiam atque etiam: again and again
Ad Fam 13.59
libertus, i: freedman; Trypho had been Regulus’s slave; after manumission, a freed slave still had close ties with his former owner (now called his patronus instead of dominus)
in illum: towards him (Regulus)
per se ipsum: i.e. because of Trypho’s own qualities, not because of the affection C. bears for Regulus
enim: gives reason why
fides, ei, f: loyalty
ut…debent: note indicative: ‘as’ not ‘so that’
bene meritos de se: who have deserved well of them
feceris…intellexerit: both future perfect indicatives
aderit…navigarit: perfect subjunctives in subordinate clauses in o.o. showing past time relative to main verb
navigarit=navigaverit; syncopated form
Auxilia 13.40
M. CICERO S. D. Q. ANCHARIO Q. F. PRO COS.
L. et C. Aurelios L. filios, quibus et ipsis et patre eorum, viro optimo, familiarissime utor, commendo tibi maiorem in modum, adulescentis omnibus optimis artibus ornatos, meos pernecessarios, tuâ amicitiâ dignissimos. si ulla mea apud te commendatio valuit,quod scio [multas plurimum valuisse],[haec ut valeat] rogo. quod si eos honorifice liberaliterque tractaris, et tibi gratissimos optimosque adulescentis adiunxeris et mihi gratissimum feceris.
Lucium et Gaium Aurelios Luci filios: Lucius and Gaius Aurelii, the sons of Lucius Aurelius
maiorem in modum:greatly, very much
pernecessarius,a,um: per intensive + necessarius
haec (commendatio)
gratus, a,um: read L&S on this important Latin word
Protected: Erasmus Auspicanti
Ad Fam 15. 20
M. CICERO S. D. C. TREBONIO
Et epistulam tuam legi libenter et librum libentissime; sed tamen in ea voluptate hunc accepi dolorem quod, cum incendisses cupiditatem meam consuetudinis augendae nostrae (nam ad amorem quidem nihil poterat accedere), tum discedis a nobis meque tanto desiderio adficis ut unam mihi consolationem relinquas, fore ut utriusque nostrum absentis desiderium crebris et longis epistulis leniatur. quod ego non modo de me tibi spondere possum sed de te etiam mihi. nullam enim apud me reliquisti dubitationem quantum me amares.
ex eadem, 3 (after “//” optional)
Nunc ad epistulam venio; cui copiose et suaviter scriptae nihil est quod multa respondeam. primum enim ego illas Calvo litteras misi non plus quam has quas nunc legis existimans exituras; aliter enim scribimus quod eos solos quibus mittimus, aliter quod multos lecturos putamus. // deinde ingenium eius maioribus extuli laudibus quam tu id vere potuisse fieri putas primum quod ita iudicabam. … in excitando autem et in acuendo plurimum valet si laudes eum quem cohortere.
Ad Familiares 15.21.1
et….et: both…andconsuetudinis augendae nostrae:gerundive phrase in the objective genitive after cupiditatem (a desire for …)cum…tum: when…thenaccedere: “be added to”fore ut: with consolationem; fore = futurum esse; Cicero’s one consolation is “it will be that”utriusque nostrum absentis depends on desiderium (subj)nostrum: partitive genitiveutriusque…absentis: genitive singularcrebris et longis epistulis: ablative of meansquantum me amares: indirect question implicit in ‘dubitatio’ cui (epistulae)…scriptaenihil est quod: there is no reason why + subjunctiveCalvo:Cicero has sent letters privately to Calvus, just as he had sent the letter privately which Trebonius is reading; he did not know that the letter would become publicaliter…putamus: i.e.:aliter scribus id quod putamus eos solos lecturos quibus mittimus, aliter scribimus id quod putamus multos lecturos esse. ingenium eius: i.e.Calvus’smaioribus laudibus…quamfieri potest: it is possiblepotuisse fieri putas: than you think could have been possiblequod ita iudicabam: because I thought it was a good ideain excitando et in acuendo: gerundsplurimum valet: it is very effective cohortere=cohorteris: present subjunctive 2p.s.
