Chapter text=A:book=13:letter=2.1

TO ATTICUS (AT ROME) TUSCULUM (24 MAY)

Your promptitude pleases me better than the contents of your letter. For what could be more insulting? However, I am by this time hardened to such things, and have divested myself of all human feelings. I look forward to your letter today, not that I expect anything new, for what should there be? But all the same—