Marcus Tullius Cicero,
Letters to Atticus — 1.11 (VII)
“ Mind also not to let anyone else have your books. Reserve them, as you say in your letter, for me. I am possessed with the utmost longing for them, as I am with a loathing for affairs of every other kind, which you will find in an incredibly worse position than when you left them. ”
Marcus Tullius Cicero,
Letters to Atticus — 1.11 (VII)
“ As to the sentence in your letter, "you suppose by this time I am praetor-elect," let me tell you that there is no class of people at Rome so harassed by every kind of unreasonable difficulty as candidates for office; and that no one knows when the elections will be. ”
