# Letters to Atticus 10.4.9

Cicero, Letters to Atticus, urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi057.perseus-lat1, Book 10, Letter 4. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/letters-to-atticus/10.4.9

cum autem ex eo quaererem quid videret, quem exitum, quam rem publicam, plane fatebatur nullam spem reliquam. Pompei classem timebat. quae si exisset, se de Sicilia abiturum. quid isti inquam sex tui fasces? si a senatu, cur laureati? si ab ipso, cur sex? cupivi inquit ex senatus consulto surrupto; nam aliter non poterat. at ille impendio nunc magis odit senatum. a me inquit omnia proficiscentur. cur autem sex?

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Cicero, Letters to Atticus, ed. Louis Claude Purser. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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