Marcus Tullius Cicero,
Letters to Atticus — 4.9 (CXXI)
“ To Atticus at Rome Cumae, 28 April 55 BC I should much like to know whether the tribunes are hindering the census by stopping business with their bad omens [1] (for there is a rumour to that effect) , and what they are doing and contriving as to the censorship altogether. I have had an interview with Pompey here. He talked a good deal to me about politics. He is not at all satisfied with himself, to judge from what he says—one is obliged to put in that proviso in his case. He thinks very little of Syria as a province ”
