Monday, February 27, 2023
Nothing Will Be Lacking
Cicero, Letters to His Friends 9.4 (to Varro; tr. W. Glynn Williams, with his note):
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If you fail to come to me, I shall hasten to you. If you have a garden in your library, we shall have all we want.aThanks to Kevin Muse for drawing my attention to Tucker's neglected conjecture.
a i.e., "plain living and high thinking": so Tyrrell takes it, and hortus is often used for "vegetables." Cf. Hor. Sat. ii.4.16.
tu si minus ad nos, accurremus ad te. si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil.
hortum codd.: χόρτον T.G. Tucker, "Emendations in Cicero's Epistles," Hermathena, Vol. 15, No. 35 (1909) 279-302 (pp. 281, 284)
