umquam simile natum puto. Cui si qua re consulere aliquid possum, cupio a te admoneri. Video eandem esse difficultatem quam in consilio dando ante. Tamen hoc me magis sollicitat quam omnia. In pensione secunda caeci fuimus. Aliud mallem; sed praeteriit. Te oro, ut in perditis rebus si quid cogi, confici potest, quod sit in tuto, ex argento atque satis multa ex supellectile, des operam. Iam enim mihi videtur adesse extremum nec ulla fore condicio pacis eaque, quae sunt, etiam sine adversario peritura. Haec etiam, si videbitur, cum Terentia loquere opportune. Non queo omnia scribere. Vale.

III Non. Quinctil.

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of misfortune. If I can do anything for her in any way, I wish you would suggest it to me. I see there will be the same difficulty as there was before in giving me advice: but this causes me more anxiety than anything. It was blind of me to pay the second instalment. I wish I had not: but that is over and done with. I beg you to do your best, as it is in the last extremity, to collect and get together what you can from the sale of plate and furniture, of which there is a good deal, and put it in a safe place. For now I think the end is near, there will be no peace negotiations, and the present government will collapse even without an adversary. As to this speak to Terentia too at your convenience, if you think fit. I cannot write everything. Farewell.

July 5.

CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER OF THE LETTERS.[201][Pg 430]
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[201] In many cases the dates and the order are only approximate, and authorities differ about them. I have generally accepted the dates given in the Teubner edition.
VII.1 October 16, 50
2 November 26, 50
3 December 9, 50
4 December 10 or 11, 50
5 December 16, 50
6 December 17, 50
7 December 18-21, 50
8 December 25 or 26, 50
9 December 26 or 27, 50
10 January 17 or 18, 49
11 January 17-22, 49
12 January 21, 49
13 January 22, 49
13a January 23, 49
14 January 25, 49
15 January 26, 49
16 January 28, 49
17 February 2, 49
18 February 3, 49
19 February 3, 49
20 February 5, 49
21 February 8, 49
22 February 8 or 9, 49
23 February 9 or 10, 49
VIII. 11a February 10, 49
VII.24 February 10, 49
25 February 10 or 11, 49
VIII. 12b February 11 or 12, 49
VII.26 February 15, 49
VIII. 11b February 16, 49
1 February 16, 49
12c February 16, 49
12d February 17, 49
2 February 17, 49
12a February 17 or 18, 48
3 February 18, 49
11c February 20, 49
6 February 21 (?), 49
4 February 22, 49
5 February 23 (?), 49
7 February 23 (?), 49
8 February 24, 49
9 February 25, 49
10 February 26, 49
11 February 27, 49
11d February 27, 49
12 February 28, 49
15a February, 49
IX.7c February (?), 49
VIII.13 March 1, 49
14 March 2, 49
15 March 3, 49
16 March 4, 49
IX.1 March 6, 49
2 March 7, 49
2a March 8, 49
6a March, 49
3 March 9, 49
5 March 10, 49
7a March 10 or 11, 49
6 March 11, 49
7b March 11 or 12, 49
4 March 12, 49
7 March 13, 49
8 March 14, 49
9 March 17, 49
10 March 18, 49
11a March 19, 49
11 March 20, 49
12 March 20, 49
13a March 23 (?), 49
13 March 24, 49
14 March 25, 49
15 March 25, 49
16 March 26, 49
17 March 27, 49
18 March 28, 49
19 March 31, 49
X.1 April 3, 49
2 April 6, 49
3 April 7, 49
3a April 7, 49
4 April 14, 49
5 April 16, 49
9a April 16, 49
8b April, 49
6 April, 49
7 April 22(?), 49
8a April, 49
8 May 2, 49
9 May 3, 49
10 May 3, 49
11 May 4, 49
12 May 5, 49
12a May 6, 49
13 May 7, 49
14 May 8, 49
15 May 12, 49
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17 May 16, 49
18 May 19 or 20, 49
XI.1 January, 48
2 March, 48
3 June 13, 48
4a June 15-19, 48
4 July 15, 48
5 November 4, 48
6 November 27, 48
7 December 17, 48
8 December 18, 48
9 January 3, 47
10 January 19, 47
11 March 8, 47
12 March 8, 47
13 March 9 (?), 47
14 April 25 (?), 47
15 May 14, 47
16 June 3, 47
17 June 12 or 13, 47
17a June 14, 47
18 June 19, 47
25 July 5, 47
23 July 9, 47
19 July 22, 47
24 August 6, 47
20 August 15, 47
21 August 25, 47
22 September 1 (?), 47

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