Friday, February 24, 2023
Escape
Cicero, Letters to His Friends 9.2.3 (tr. W. Glynn Williams):
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And indeed it has long since occurred to me myself that it would be very nice to leave Rome and go somewhere else so as to escape seeing or hearing what was going on here and what was being said.9.2.5:
ac mihi quidem iam pridem venit in mentem, bellum esse, aliquo exire, ut ea, quae agebantur hic, quaeque dicebantur, nec viderem nec audirem.
Only let us be fixed in this determination — to live together amid those studies of ours in which we previously sought nothing but delight, but now seek our salvation also.
modo nobis stet illud, una vivere in studiis nostris, a quibus antea delectationem modo petebamus, nunc vero etiam salutem.
