# Letters to his brother Quintus 1.1.21

Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus, urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi058.perseus-lat1, Book 1, Letter 1. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/letters-to-his-brother-quintus/1.1.21

adiungenda etiam est facilitas in audiendo, lenitas in decernendo, in satis faciendo ac disputando diligentia. his rebus nuper C. Octavius iucundissimus fuit, apud quem primus lictor quievit, tacuit accensus, quotiens quisque voluit dixit et quam voluit diu ; quibus ille rebus fortasse nimis lenis videretur, nisi haec lenitas illam severitatem tueretur. cogebantur Sullani homines quae per vim et metum abstulerant reddere ; qui in magistratibus iniuriose decreverant, eodem ipsis privatis erat iure parendum. haec illius severitas acerba videretur, nisi multis condimentis humanitatis mitigaretur.

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Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus, 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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