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From the Letters of MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO, to feveral of his Friends, as tranflated by WILLIAM MELMOTH, Efq.

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Brandifiom, April the 30th. [A. U. 695.] Iquently as you might, it is becaure I F you do not hear from me fo fre

can neither write to you, nor read your letters, without falling into greater grief than I am able to fupport: for though I am at all times indeed completely miferable, yet I feel my misfortunes with a particular fenfibility upon thofe tender occafions.

Oh! that I had been more indifferent to life! Our days would then have been, if not wholly unacquainted with forrow, yet by no means thus wretched. How ever, if any hopes are ftill referved to us of recovering fome part at least of what we have loft, I fhall not think that I have made altogether fo imprudent a choice. But if our prefent fate is unalterably fixed-Ah! my dearest Terentia, if we are utterly and for ever abandoned by thofe gods whom you have fo religiously adored, and by thofe men whom I have fo faithfully ferved; let me fee you as soon as poble, that I may have the fatisfaction of breathing out my last departing figh in

your arms.

I have spent about a fortnight at this place, with my friend Marcus Flaccus. This worthy man did not fcruple to exercife the rites of friendship and hofpitality towards me, notwithstanding the fevere penalties of that iniquitous law against those who fhould venture to give me reception +. May I one day have it in my power to make him a return to those generous fervices, which I shall ever most gratefully remember.

I am just going to embark, and purpofe to pass through Macedonia in my way to Cyzicum f. And now, my Terentia, thus wretched and ruined as I am, can I intreat you under all that weight of pain and forrow with which, I too well know, you are oppreffed, can I intreat you to be the partner and companion of

* Brundifium: : a maritime town in the kingdom of Naples, now called Brindifi. Cicero, when he firft withdrew from Reme, intended to have reti.ed into Sicily; but being denied entrance by the governor of that ifland, he changed his direction and came to Brundifium in his way to Greece, Pro Planc. 40, 41.

Clodius procured a law, which among other articles + As foon as Cicero had withdrawn from Rome, enacted, that no perion fhould prefume to har"bour or receive him on pain of death." Life of Cic. i. 354.

A confiderable town in an ifland of the Pro

pontis, which lay fo close to the continent of Afia as to be joined with it by a bridge. B

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my exile? But muft I then live without you? I know not how to reconcile myfelf to that hard condition; unless your prefence at Rome may be a mean of forwarding my return: if any hopes of that kind fhould indeed fubfift. But fhould there, as I fadly fufpect, be abfolutely none; come to me, I conjure you, if it be pofible for never can I think myfelf completely ruined, whilst I fhall enjoy my Terentia's company. But how will my dearest daughter difpofe of herfelf? A question which you yourfelves mult confider: for, as to my own part, I am utterly at a lofs what to advife. At all events, however, that dear unhappy girl must not take any meafures that may injure her conjugal repofe, or affect her in the good opinion of the world. As for my fon-let me not at leaf be deprived of the confolation of folding him for ever in my arms. But I muft lay down my pen a few moments: my tears flow too faft to fuffer me to proceed.

I am under the utmoft folicitude, as I know not whether you have been able to preferve any part of your eftate, or (what I fadly fear) are cruelly robbed of your whole fortune.-I hope Pifo† will always continue, what you reprefent him to be, entirely ours. As to the manumiflion of the flaves; I think you have no occafion to be uneafy. For with regard to your own, you only promifed them their liberty as they should deferve it: but excepting Orpheus, there are none of them that have any great claim to this favour. As to mine, I told them, if my eftate fhould be forfeited, I would give them their freedom, provided I could obtain the confirmation of that grant: but if I preferved my eftate, that they fhould all of them, excepting only a few whom I particularly named, remain in their prefent condition. But this is a matter of little confequence.

convey your letters. I would have waited for them at this place; but the matter of the fhip on which I am going to embark, could not be prevailed upon to lose the prefent opportunity of failing.

For the reft, let me conjure you in my turn, to bear up under the preffure of our afflictions with as much refolution as poffible. Remember that my days have all been honourable; and that I now suffer, not for my crimes, but my virtues. No, my Terentia, nothing can juflly be imputed to me, but that I furvived the lofs of my dignities. However, if it was more agreeable to our children that I fhould thus live, let that reflection teach us to fubmit to our misfortunes with cheerfulnefs; infupportable as upon all other confiderations they would undoubtedly be. But alas, whilst I am endeavouring to keep up your spirits, I am utterly unable to preferve my own! I have fent back the faithful Phileteas the weakness of his eyes made him incapable of rendering me any fervice. Nothing can equal the good offices I receive from Salluftius. Pefcennius likewife has given me ftrong marks of his affection: and I hope he will not fail in his refpect alfo to you. Sicca promifed to attend me in my exile: but he changed his mind, and has left me at this place.

rus:

I intreat you to take all poffible care of your health and be affured, your misfortunes more fenfibly affect me than my own. Adieu, my Terentia, thou moit faithful and beft of wives! Adieu. And thou my dearest daughter, together with that other confolation of my life, my dear fon, I bid you both moft tenderly farewel.

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LETTER II.

my Son.

With regard to the advice you give me To Terentia, to my dearest Tullia, and to of keeping up my fpirits, in the belief that I fhall again be restored to my country; I only with that I may have reason to encourage fo defirable an expe&tation. In the mean time, I am greatly miferable, in the uncertainty when I thall hear from you, or what hand you will find to

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Theffalonicat, Oct. the 5th. [A. U. 695.] MAGINE not, my Terentia, that I write longer letters to others than to yourself: be affured at leaft, if ever I do, it is merely becaufe thofe I receive from them require a more particular antwer. The truth of it is, I am always at a lofs what to write: and as there is nothing in the prefent dejection of my mind, that I

A city in Macedonia, now called Salaricbi.

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