Marcus Tullius Cicero

“ Nothing could be more delightful! Never, by Hercules, did any crazy poet read with greater zest his last composition than I listen to you, no matter what business is in hand, public or private, rural or urban. ”

“ For I assure you that the neighbourhood of Marius makes the sunshine of that other country residence of mine. [6] I will see about getting him put up in the house of Anicius. For I myself, though a student, can live with workpeople in the house. ”

“ But they are scarcely more in place there. The Greek quotation is not known.↑ M. Marius, to whom Letter CXXVI is addressed.↑ C. Anicius, a senator, seems to have obtained from Ptolemy Auletes, by gift or purchase, his state sedan and its attendants.↑ The Pompeianum.↑ An unintelligible word, meant apparently for Greek (perhaps arce psuriai, see Att. 16.13) , is in the text. ”