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Epistulae ad Familiares, IV. ii.-iii.

decision can be made which does not find itself barred by some awkward obstacle. If you have now determined what you consider should be your course of action, even supposing it does not coincide with my own, I think, if you have no objection, that you might well dispense with your troublesome journey here; but if there is anything you would like to discuss with me, I shall look forward to seeing you. Indeed, I should like you to come as soon as possible without inconvenience to yourself—a proposal agreeable, as I gathered, to both Servius and Postumia.

III

To the same

Rome, early in September, 46 B.C.

1 That you are profoundly agitated, and, amid the miseries we all feel, are suffering a special sorrow of your own—such is the report that many bring me daily. And though I am but little surprised at that and recognize it as to a certain degree my own case, still I am sorry that, endowed as you are with a wisdom almost unique, you should not rather delight in your own blessings than be harassed by the misfortunes of others. As regards myself, though I yield to no man as having suffered more sorrow than myself through the destruction and ruin of the Republic, I now find much to console me, and most of all the consciousness of the policy I had advocated. Long before it came, I foresaw as from some high watch-tower the storm that was to be, and that not by my own intuition only, but far more in consequence of your

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