Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ If he doesn't stand by his own proposal, what I should like best is that what he bought at too dear a rate should be returned, if that can be done with Pomponia's Consent: if that too is impossible, let the money be paid rather than have any difficulty. ”

“ About the 1st of the month I shall be either at Formiae or Pompeii. [4] If I am not at Formiae, pray, an you love me, come to Pompeii. It will be a great pleasure to me and not much out of the way for you. About the wall, I have given Philotimus orders not to put any difficulty in the way of your doing whatever you please. I think, however, you had better call in Vettius. [5] In these bad times, when the life of all the best men hangs on a thread, I value one summer's enjoyment of my Palatine palaestra rather highly ”

“ The word Scepsii (Skêpsiou) was introduced by Gronovius for the unintelligible word Syrpie found in the MSS., which so often blunder in Greek names.↑ Clodius, alluding to his intrusion into the mysteries.↑ Atticus has asked Cicero for a Latin treatise on geography—probably as a publisher, Cicero being the prince of book-makers—and to that end has sent him the Greek geography of Serapio.↑ In his Formianum or Pompeianum, his villas at Formiae and Pompeii.↑ An architect, a freedman of Cyrus, of whom we have heard before. ”