Sunday, July 28, 2019
I Can't Stand the Sight of Them
Cicero, Letters to His Friends 2.16.2 (to Caelius Rufus; tr. D.R. Shackleton Bailey):
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Well then, what is this 'melancholy' project of mine? To withdraw, it may be, to some place of solitude. You must know how the unseemly behaviour of insolent upstarts irritates my spleen (you used to have a similar organ), even my eyes.
Quod est igitur meum triste consilium? ut discederem fortasse in aliquas solitudines. nosti enim non modo stomachi mei, cuius tu similem quondam habebas, sed etiam oculorum in hominum insolentium indignitate fastidium.
