# Letters to his brother Quintus 1.3.2

Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus, urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi058.perseus-lat1, Book 1, Letter 3. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/letters-to-his-brother-quintus/1.3.2

sed testor omnis deos me hac una voce a morte esse revocatum, quod omnes in mea vita partem aliquam tuae vitae repositam esse dicebant ; qua in re peccavi scelerateque feci. nam si occidissem, mors ipsa meam pietatem amoremque in te facile defenderet ; nunc commisi ut me vivo careres, vivo me aliis indigeres, mea vox in domesticis periculis potissimum occideret quae saepe alienissimis praesidio fuisset. nam quod ad te pueri sine litteris venerunt, quoniam vides non fuisse iracundiam causam, certe pigritia fuit et quaedam infinita vis lacrimarum et dolorum.

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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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