# Letters to Atticus 9.5.3

Cicero, Letters to Atticus, urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi057.perseus-lat1, Book 9, Letter 5. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/letters-to-atticus/9.5.3

sed ea iam mihi exciderunt; beneficia eiusdem cogito, cogito etiam dignitatem; intellego serius equidem quam vellem propter epistulas sermonesque Balbi, sed video plane nihil aliud agi, nihil actum ab initio, nisi ut hunc occideret. ego igitur, sicut ille apud Homerum cui et mater et dea dixisset, αὐτίκα γάρ τοι ἔπειτα μεθ' Ἕκτορα πότμοσ ἕτοιμος, matri ipse respondit, αὐτίκα τεθναίην, ἐπεὶ οὐκ ἄρ' ἔμελλον ἑταίρῳ κτεινομένῳ ἐπαμῦναι, quid si non ἑταίρῳ solum sed etiam εὐεργέτῃ, adde tali viro talem causam agenti? ego vero haec officia mercanda vita puto. optimatibus vero tuis nihil confido, nihil iam ne inservio quidem.

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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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