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Even Atticus he thinks was timid, at the best, in advising his retirement. It is the only occasion in all the correspondence in which the least cloud seems to have rested on the perfect friendship of the two men. Atticus does not appear to have shewn any annoyance at the querulous remarks of his friend.
I remember reading a satiric attack on Mr Gladstone by one of the young anarchic Tories, which began by asserting that Mr Gladstone was a bad public speaker. If these people would, as I have said, go quietly and read Pope's 'Atticus, they would see how a great satirist approaches a great enemy: 'Peace to all such!
Atticus looked at the Romans among the company and his voice became golden and persuasive as he continued: "I have come to feel, my friends, that the restoration of an art that is not the outcome of a genuine national life is a futile thing. Rome cannot restore the glory of old Athens. She can only learn from Greece how to create a glory of her own.
There is a mixture in all this of earnestness and of drollery, of boasting and of laughing at what he was doing, which is inimitable in its reality. His next letter is to his other young friend, Curio, who has just been elected Tribune. He gives much advice to Curio, who certainly always needed it. He carries on the joke when he tells Atticus that the "people of Pindenissum have surrendered."
T. “Greets Appius.” True; but it sounds stiff in English, doesn’t it? What is the real English of it? C. “My dear Appius?”… T. That will do; go on. C. Dubitanti mihi, quod scit Atticus noster, While I was hesitating, as our friend Atticus knows.… T. That is right.
The sensible and practical Atticus convinced him that such a solution of his difficulties would be the greatest possible mistake a mistake, moreover, which could never be rectified. But almost any course would have become him better than that which he chose.
I like Curio; I hope Cæsar may prove himself an honourable man; for Pompey I would willingly give my life; yet, after all, I love no man so dearly as I love the republic. You do not seem to be taking any very prominent part in these difficulties; but you are somewhat tied by being at once a good patriot and a loyal friend. To Atticus, in Rome Athens, B.C. 50
It was, however, a catastrophe which the principles of Epicurus, equally erroneous and irreconcilable to resignation and fortitude, authorized in particular circumstances. Even Atticus, the celebrated correspondent of Cicero, a few years after this period, had recourse to the same desperate expedient, by refusing all sustenance, while he laboured under a lingering disease.
He must be acquainted also with the history of past ages and the chronology of old time, especially, indeed, as far as our own state is concerned; but also he must know the history of despotic governments and of illustrious monarchs; and that toil is made easier for us by the labours of our friend Atticus, who has preserved and made known the history of former times in such a way as to pass over nothing worth knowing, and yet to comprise the annals of seven hundred years in one book.
He then begged Atticus to arrange his matters for him, telling him that the sum was at his call in Asia, but he never saw it again: Pompey borrowed it or took it; and when Pompey had been killed the money was of course gone. His brother Quintus was with him in Cilicia, but of his brother's doings there he says little or nothing.
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