DOI 10.1515/bz-2020-0032 BZ 2020; 113(3): 733–750
Guillermo Galán Vioque Aforgotten translation by Theodorus Gaza unveiled and its context Abstract: The emigrant Byzantine humanist Theodorus Gaza (c. 1400 –1475)is well known as ateacherofGreek in various Italian cities, as acopyist of Greek manuscripts, and as atranslator of Greek philosophical works into Latin. His undertakingsasatranslator of Latin works into Greek, among which his version of Cicero’s De senectute deservesmention, have gone relatively unnoticed. In this article we rediscover alargely forgotten translation of Cic. Fam. 1.1, despite it having been printed independentlytwice (Paris 1542and 1548) and having been included as an example of translation in the oft reprinted manualofrhetorical exercises, Elementarhetoricae (first printed in Basel in 1541), by the Lutheran Joachim Camerarius.
Adresse: Dr Guillermo Galán Vioque, FacultaddeHumanidades, Universidad de Huelva, Avda. Tres de marzo s/n, 21071 Huelva, Spain; [email protected]
In an ancient catalogue preserved in the Vatican library,there is an entry that testifies to the existenceofanalmost unknown translation into Greek attributed to the well-known grammarian,poet,teacher of Greek, and copyist Theodorus Gaza.¹ Irefer to manuscript Vaticanus Barberinus lat.3185, which contains acata-
This research wasconductedduring asabbatical leaveofabsence at the University of Oxford thankstoascholarship granted by the Ministerio de Educación (PX /). Thanksare also due to Professor NigelG.Wilson forhis amiability. See E. Legrand,Bibliographie Hellénique ou description raisonnée des ouvragespubliés par des Grecs auxXVe et XVIe siècles,I.Paris (reprint Brussels ), XXXI–XLII; D. J. Geana- koplos,TheodoroGaza, aByzantine scholar of the Palaeologan ’Renaissance’ in the Italian Ren- aissance. Medievalia et Humanistica (), –;C.B. Schmitt,Theodorus Gaza, in P. G. Bietenholz /T.B.Deutscher (eds.), Contemporaries of Erasmus: abiographical register of the Renaissanceand Reformation, I. Toronto , ;D.J. Geanakoplos,Constantinople and the West: Essays on the lateByzantine (Paleologan) and Italian Renaissanceand the Byzantine and Roman churches.Wisconsin , –;C.Bianca,Gaza, Teodoro. Dizionariobiografico degli Italiani (), –;P.Botley,LearningGreek in western Europe, –. Philadelphia , –;and N.G.Wilson,From Byzantium to Italy. Greek studies in the Ital- ian Renaissance. London () passim. Further bibliographyinG.Salanitro,Ilcodice 734 Byzantinische Zeitschrift Bd. 113/3, 2020: I. Abteilung logue of the booksinGreek that were at thatmoment in the privatelibrary of the Medici, temporarilyhousedinRome in the Palazzo Madama in the quarter of Sant’Eustachio (Graeca Bibliotheca of the Mediceae domus insignis bibliotheca, quae nunc est apud R[everendissim]um Car[dina]lem de Medicis).² Thiscatalogue was compiled by Fabio Vigili in around 1510,and in its f. 263entry nº17, it has the following content³:
1. Aeschinis rhetoris orationes tres uidelicet contraTimarchum una, περὶ παραπρεσβείας i
zurighese elaversione greca di TeodoroGaza del De senectute ciceroniano. Helikon / (–) note . See E.B. Fryde,Greek manuscripts in the privatelibrary of the Medici –.Aberyst- wyth ,I,;and II, –;M.H. Laurent,Fabio Vigilietles bibliothèques de Bologne au début du XVIe siècle d’après le Ms.Barb. Lat. .Città del Vaticano ,XVII–XVIII; I.G. Rao,Ilfondo manoscritto, in T. de Robertis et al. (eds.), Imanoscritti datati della Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana di Firenze,I.Plutei –.Firenze , ;D.Speranzi,Labiblioteca dei Medici. Appunti sulla storia della formazione del fondo greco della libreria medicea privata, in G. Arbizzonietal. (eds.), Principiesignori. Le biblioteche nella seconda meta` del Quattrocen- to.Atti del Convegno di Urbino, – giugno .Urbino , ;and S. Gentile/D.Sper- anzi,Antichi cataloghi.Gli inventari dei manoscritti greci della libreria medicea privata, in P. Degni et al. (eds.), Greek manuscript cataloguing. Past,present,and future.Turnhout , –.There is amanuscript copyinthe Laurentian library (Florentinus Laurentianus Carte Lodi, Appendice ,see Gentile/Speranzi,Antichi cataloghi,asabove, note ). Ifollow A. Diller’stranscription, but constantlyuse ufor v, and add numbers to each title (see A. Diller,The manuscript tradition of Aeschines’ Orations. Illinois Classical Studies , , –,reprinted in idem,Studies in Greek manuscript tradition. Amsterdam , – ). As is the accepted standardpractice,Iquotefollowingthe original pagination (f. is todayf.). On Fabio Vigili, see G. Levi della Vida,Ricerche sulla formazione del più antico fondo dei manoscritti orientali della Biblioteca Vaticana. Città del Vaticano , –; M.H. Laurent,Fabio Vigili et les bibliothèques de Bologne au début du XVIe siècle d’après le ms.Barb. Lat. .Città del Vaticano ,VIII–XXII; E.B. Fryde,Humanism and Renais- sancehistoriography. London , –;D.F. Jackson,Fabio Vigili’sinventory of Medici Greek manuscripts. Scriptorium (), –;and A. Manfredi,Leorigine della Biblio- teca Vaticana traUmanesimo eRinascimento. Città del Vaticano , –. G. Galán Vioque, Aforgottentranslation by Theodorus Gaza 735
Panyasi PindaroSimonide SthesichoroAlcaeo lyricis,Aeschylo Sophocle Eurypide tragicis, Menandrocomico, HerodotoThucydide Philisto XenophonteTheopompo historicis,Py- thagoricis XenophontePlatone Aristotele philosophis, Lysia Isocrate Lycurgo Demosthene Aeschine Hyperide oratoribus,deque eorum intentione et stilo. 8. Quaedam ad astrologica et logica pertinentia. 9. Isaac Argyrilibellus de lingua.
Accordingtothis description, this manuscript contained three translations by Theodorus Gaza into Greek. Twoofthem (nn. 4, and 5) are very well-known, since they have been preserved in numerous manuscripts and have already been printed.⁴ Both were expresslyattributed to Gaza, but the third one, item n. 6, Gaza’stranslation of Cicero’sfirst letter to Lentulus (Cic. Fam.1.1), probably bore no indication of authorship, since the compiler has cautiouslyadded ut puto. While studying the manuscript tradition of Aeschynes’ speeches, referringto item n. 6, Diller says that there was no further indication of the existenceofthis work: “The translation of Cicero ad fam. I1is new,sofar as Iknow”.Moreover, since he thought this translation was astarting point for afull translation of this work, he concluded that it waslikelythat the whole manuscript was written by Theodorus himself: “Perhaps it was an inchoate work. If so, our codex would be near to Theodore Gaza, perhaps autograph.”⁵ This translation was not recorded by M. E. Cosenza in his Biographical and Bibliographical Dictionary of the Italian Humanists and of the WorldofClassical
Thereare twenty-three manuscripts of De senectute’stranslation. To the eighteenused by G. Salanitroinhis edition, we should now add one in Athens,two in Poland,one in the Vatican library,and another in Egypt (see https://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/notices/oeuvre//). Τhe manu- script in Elbląg(Elbing) in Poland,shelfmark O.,isnow missing, according to J.-M. Olivier, Supplément au répertoire des bibliothèques et des catalogues de manuscrits grecs, I. Turnhout , .Salanitroalreadymentioned twomissingmanuscripts: Berolinensis ,and Escor- ialensis MIV(see G. Salanitro,M.Tullii Ciceronis liber De senectuteinGraecum translatus. Leipzig ,VIII note ), although the missing Berolinensis is today Universitatis Iagelloni- cae Cracoviensis Berlin graec. °..This translation was first printedbyAldus Manutius’ heirs in ,and reedited several times: the last time by Salanitro,asabove, VIII–XII, XX–XXI, XXVand idem,Ilcodice zurighese, as footnote above, –). Gaza’stranslation of PopeNicolas V’slettertoConstantinus XI has been preserved in twenty-eight manuscripts (see https://pinakes.irht.cnrs.fr/notices/oeuvre//). There is an ancient printed edition: P. Arcudius,Opuscula aurea theologica. Romae , – (for the other editions,see G. Hoffmann,ed., Epistulae pontificae ad Concilium florentinum spectantes,Series A, pars . Roma , – [no. ]); and amodern English translation based on the Latin text in W. K. Hanak,PopeNicholas Vand the aborted crusadeof– to rescue Constanti- nople from the Turks. Byzantinoslavica (), –. Forboth quotations,see Diller,Manuscript tradition (as footnote above), . 736 Byzantinische Zeitschrift Bd. 113/3, 2020: I. Abteilung
Scholarship in Italy,1300–1800,II. Massachusetts 1962, 1563—1571, and neither does G. Salanitro mention it in his prefacetohis edition of Gaza’stranslation of Cicero’s De senectute,although he had agood opportunity to do so, since he af- firmed thatGaza translated two other works of Cicero, in referencetothe trans- lationsattributed to Gaza of the treatises De amicitia and De officiis.⁶ Nor does he mention it in his summary of Gaza’stranslations published several years later, wherehis aim was to present “una rapida rassegna delle traduzioni anoi pervenute”.⁷ Finally, in recent times, P. Botley,inhis studyofGreek grammars, lexica, and textbooks whenherefers to TheodorusGaza’stranslations as astudent’s tool to learn Greek, repeats in afootnotethe information provided by A. Diller: “Alost Florentine manuscriptseems to have contained aGreek version made by Gaza of the first letter of the first volume of Cicero’scorrespondence”.⁸ Unfortunately, the Mediceus manuscript mentioned by FabioVigili in his 1510 catalogue remains missing.Itseems that it was borrowed by Angelo Polizia- no on 21st November 1481 or 1482 (he had alreadyuseditfor his lessons on Sta- ce’s Siluae,⁹ and for his lessons on Ovid’s Epistle of Sapho to Faon [Ov. Her. XV]),¹⁰ by Demetrius Chalcondyles on 13th January 1489,and by Janus Lascaris
See Salanitro,M.Tullii Ciceronis liber (as footnote above),VI. The Greek translation of Cic- ero’s De amicitia has been attributed to the Jesuit theologian Denis Pétau(–), while on the translation of Cicero’s De officiis,M.Salanitroaffirms that its authorshipneeds to be veri- fied (see M. Salanitro,TeodoroGaza traduttore di testi classici, in M. Cortesi /E.V.Maltese, eds., Dotti bizantini elibri greci nell’Italia del secolo XV.Napoli , ). See Salanitro,TeodoroGaza (as footnote above), . See Botley,LearningGreek (as footnote above), note . Poliziano quotes DionysiusofHalicarnassus’ epitome in the commentary preserved in manu- script Biblioteca Nazionale di Firenze Florentinus Magliabechianus VII ,editedbyL.Cesar- ini Martinelli,Angelo Poliziano. Commento ineditoalle Selve di Stazio. Firenze (see notesonStat. Silu. .. [epit. de imit. .][f. v;Cesarini Martinelli, ], and on .. [epit. de imit. .][f. ;Cesarini Martinelli, ]). ForPoliziano’slessons on the Siluae,see I. del Lungo,Florentia. Firenze , –;L.Cesarini Martinelli,Poliziano professore allo Studio fiorentino, in: La Toscana al tempodiLorenzo il Magnifico. Politica economia cul- turaarte. Convegno internazionale di studi (Firenze–Pisa–Siena, – novembre ), II. Pisa , –;and P. Harsting,More evidenceofMenanderRhetor on the wedding speech: Angelo Poliziano’stranscriptions in the Statius commentary (–). Cahiers de l’Institut du Moyen Âgegrecetlatin (), –. See E. Lazzeri,Angelo Poliziano. Commentoineditoall’ epistola ovidiana di Saffo aFaone. Firenze ,XI–XV.This commentary has been preserved in manuscript Monacensis lat. , ff. –,which belongedtoPetrusVictorius; see F. Tinnefeld,Zur Geschichte der Samm- lung griechischerHandschriften in der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek München,inM.Restle (ed.), Festschrift für K. Wessel zum .Geburtstag. München , –;R.Mouren,L’i- dentification d’écritures grecques dans un fonds humaniste: l’exemple de la bibliothèque de G. Galán Vioque, Aforgottentranslation by Theodorus Gaza 737 in August 1492.Itstillappears in the inventory of the Medicean library dated in 1495.¹¹ It remains to be determined whether anyofthese humanistsattained acopy of Gaza’stranslation of Cic. Fam. 1.1, or perhaps there wereother copies com- pletelyunbeknownsttouscirculating among the humanists and libraries of Italyand beyond, but approximatelyfifty years later, this text found its wayto Basel, where the German classicalscholarand Lutheran theologian Joachim Camerarius included it as an example of translation from Latin into Greek in his Elementa rhetoricae siue capita exercitationum studii puerilis et stili ad com- parandam utriusquelinguae facultatem collecta. Basileae: ex officinaIoannis Oporini, [1541], 281—285.¹² Thishandbook was reedited several times,¹³ but its in- fluencewas limited since Camerarius’ works weresoon going to be included in
PieroVettori,inG.Prato (ed.), Imanoscritti greci tra riflessione edibattito.Atti del Vcolloquio internazionale di paleografia greca (Cremona, – ottobre ). Firenze , ;and K. Hajdú,Die Sammlung griechischer Handschriften in der Münchener Hofbibliothek bis zum Jahr .Wiesbaden , –). He quotes the epitome in his notes on l. (carmina)(epit. de imit. .)(f. ;Lazzeri, )and l. (Alcaeus)(epit. de imit. .)(f. v;Lazzeri, ). On the authenticity of this Ovidian epistle, see A. Ramírez de Verger,Lacarta de Safo aFaón de Ovi- dio. Emerita (), –. See E. Piccolomini,Inventario della Libreria medicea privata compilato nel . Archivio storico italiano, aserie (), [no. ]; idem,Ricerche intorno alle condizioni ealle vicende della libraria medicea privata dal al . Archivio storico italian, aserie (), and ;D.del Piazzo,Protocolli del Carteggio di Lorenzo il Magnifico per gli anni –, –.Firenze , ;Diller,Manuscript tradition (as footnote above), ;and Fryde,Greek manuscripts (as footnote above), II, and note . Frydesuggestedthat this manuscript might have been stolen by Lascaris;however,this sugges- tion cannot be validated. Although it is often mentioned that the editio princeps of this handbook appeared in Basel in ,Ihave found no copyofthis edition, since the copyatthe Bodleian Library,with book- shelf C Art,quoted as printedin by L. D. Green /J.J.Murphy,Renaissancerhetoric short-title catalogue –.Aldershot , (no. ), is dated to in the colo- phon (p. ), and is in fact acopyofthe edition (see followingnote).This confusion has probablyarisen because thereisnodateinits title pageand its prefaceisdatedas (f. A). It is also mistakenlyquoted as a edition in some ancient catalogues,such as Bib- liothecæ Josephi Garampii cardinalis catalogus. Romae , no. .See J. Baron,Joa- chim Camerarius (–). München , note *. In fact,itwas edited by JohannesOporinus’ press in (see previous note), and later re- editedbythe same pressin (pp. –)and (pp. –), and in Leipzig,in officina Voegetiana, in (pp. –), (pp. –), and (pp. –), and also in Leipzig on Tobias Steinmann’spress in (pp. –). See T. Arcos Pereira, Los Elementa rhetoricaesiue Capita exercitiorum studii puerilis et stili de JoachimusCamerarius: estudio preliminar,inF.Hernández /M.Martínez Hernández /L.M.Pino Campos (eds.), Soda- lium munera. Homenaje al Prof. Á. González Luis. Madrid , –. 738 Byzantinische Zeitschrift Bd. 113/3, 2020: I. Abteilung several Indices librorum prohibitorum throughout Europe,¹⁴ probablydue to his close friendship with the Lutheran Philip Melanchthon.¹⁵ Since the copy he owned was anonymous (as was probablythe Mediceus copy itself ¹⁶), in his foreword to Gaza’stranslation Camerarius expressed his doubts regarding its authorship, although he does conclude by affirming that it might well be a πάρεργον to Gaza’stranslation of Cicero’s De senectute, which in his copy actuallypreceded the anonymoustranslation of Cic. Fam. 1.1:
Incidi autem felicissimoauspicio ante annos aliquot in conatum talem¹⁷ nescio cuius,non enim adscriptum nomen erat: sed hominis,utfacile apparet,eteruditi, et minime inepti, qui epistolam Ciceronis primam ad LentuluminGraecam linguam conuertisset.Sunt et Gazae conuersiones in manibus.Sed nos illam, quam fortuna nobis conseruauit,primum, deinde et nostram quandam referamus.Acnequid prorsus dissimulem,adiecta erat haec conuersio ad libellum De senectute,quem transtulisse in Graecum sermonemGazam sci- mus,utdehoc qua si πάρεργον eiusdem auctoris credi posse uideatur.Dequo tamen, praesertim in dubitatione nostra, liberum cuique iudicium relinquimus.¹⁸
Camerarius’ edition is not the onlyprintedtext of this translation. Just one year later it was printed in Paris by Jean Loys’ press in abooklet of four folia,along with aLatinversion of Cicero’sfirst letter to Lentulus,aslim volume known as M.T. Ciceronis Romani oratoris prima ad Lentulum Proconsulem Epistola, per The-
Some of his books were individuallyincluded in several indices librorum prohibitorum,but all his works werejointlycensuredinthe Portuguese index; see J. M. de Bujanda, Index de l’Inquisition Portugaise , , , , ,IV. Sherbrooke , (nos. –); the index of Venice and Milan, see idem,Index de Venise ,Venise et Milan ,II. Sherbrooke , (no ): the and index of Rome, see idem, Index de Rome , , ,VIII. Sherbrooke , (no. ); the Spanish index, see idem,Index de l’Inquisition Espagnole , , ,V.Sherbrooke , (no. ); in the index d’Anvers,see idem,Index d’Anvers , , ,VII. Sherbrooke , (note ); and finallyalso in the Spanish index, see idem,Index de l’InquisitionEspagnole , ,VI. Sherbrooke , (no. ). See S. Kunkler,Zwischen Humanismus und Reformation. Der Humanist Joachim Camera- rius (–)imWechselspiel vonpädagogischen Pathos und theologischen Ethos.Hilde- sheim , –.Camerarius was goingtobecome the first biographer of Melanchthon: J. Camerarius,DePhilippi Melanchthonis ortu, totius uitae curriculo et morte. Lipsiae . There is aGerman translation by V. Werner,Das Leben Philipp Melanchthons. Leipzig . See supra. He refers to what he has previouslysaid: Sed quod diximusetiam temptandum, ut de Latinis Graeca faciamus (pp. –). Camerarius,Elementa rhetoricae, .Iquotefollowingthe copyatthe Bodleian with bookshelf C Art (see footnote above). AfterGaza’stranslation, Camerarius added a short story both in Latin and Greek regarding aso-called Maximilianusimperator (see Camera- rius,Elementa rhetoricae, –). G. Galán Vioque, Aforgotten translation by Theodorus Gaza 739 odorumGraecè donata,Parisiis: excudebat IoannesLodoicus Tiletanus ex aduer- so Collegii Remensis, 1542. It was reedited six years later,in1548, by Jean Loy’ssuccessor in the press, Thomas Richard,¹⁹ who was no doubt less careful and skilled than his predeces- sor,since his edition contains mistakes and misreadings: he omitted some letters and monosyllabic words, he sometimes confused ι/υ,and η/ι,and on two occa- sions he misunderstood acommon abbreviature.²⁰ CuriouslyJean Loys’ and Thomas Richard’seditions almost follow the same pattern of obliviousness of the Mediceus manuscript,since they remained unno- ticed even to the great bibliophile E. Legrand.²¹ Jean Loys’ volume was also over- looked in P. Renouard’sposthumous volume that deals with his press,²² and, although both are quoted by A. Pettegree, and M. Walsby in their French Books III &IV. Bookspublished in France before 1601 in Latin and Languages other than French (Leiden 2012)I,p.420 (nº 61538), and p. 428(nº 61744), in the case of Thomas Richard’svolume, they failed to mention that it contains Gaza’stranslation.²³ To the best of our knowledge,onlyone copyofJean Loys’ edition has been preserved, located in the library of the University of Bologna (bookshelf A.V. Tab.I. N.II. 224/4),²⁴ and four copies of the 1548 reedition have been preserved, located in the libraries of Roanne (Médiathèque de Roanne R473/P) and La Ro- chelle (Mediathèque Michel-Crépeau18115 C.)²⁵ in France, and in the libraries of
Marci T. Ciceronis Romani oratoris prima ad LentulumProconsulem Epistola, per Theodo- rum Graecèdonata. Parisiis:apud Thomam Richardum, sub Bibliis aureis, èregione Collegii Re- mensis, . See Appendix I infra. See Legrand,Bibliographie Hellénique (as footnote above), XXXI–XLIX. See P. Renouard,Imprimeurs &libraires parisiens du XVIe siècle. Jean Loys.Paris . It is also absent fromthe NationalUnion catalogueofpre- imprints.London –, vols.(TheodorusGaza is in vol. , –,and vol. , –,and Cicero is in vol. , –,and vol. , –). Thanks are duetoProf. Assoc. Valentina Garulli for providingmewith pictures of this edi- tion. This copyisbound with other volumes, among others with acopyofἘπιστολαί Αἰσχίνου. Epistolae Aeschinis.Parisiis:apudIoannem Lodoicum Tiletanum, eregione Collegii Remensis, . This copywas owned by the Calvinist physician, bibliophile, and collector François Mizière (–). On his life, see J.-P.Pittion,Notesur quelques livres ayantappartenu àFrançois Mizièreetconservés àlabibliothèqueMarsh de Dublin, in F. Barbier (ed.), Le berceau du livre: autourdes incunables. Études et essais offerts au Professeur PierreAquilon per ses élèves, ses collègues et ses amis.Bordeaux , –. 740 Byzantinische Zeitschrift Bd. 113/3, 2020: I. Abteilung
Cambridge (Wren Library,TrinityCollegeT.23.11[9])²⁶ and Oxford (Bodleian Li- brary Byw. D1.9)²⁷ in the United Kingdom; however,thereare probablymore copies either bound with other works or on theirown in other libraries. These printed editions have onlyfour pages that contain the following: – Title page, with the title in both Greek and Latin at the top of the page,²⁸ printer’s mark,²⁹ and place of publication, with the printer’sname and date at the bottom.³⁰ – Hypotheses in Greek.³¹ – TheodorusGaza’sGreek version of Cic. Fam.1.1.³²
This copy is also bound with other works dated between and ,some of which are translationsfromGreek into Latin of several of Plutarch’streatises and Dionysius Periegetes’ Periegesis (see Wren library online catalogueat
– Latin original of Cic. Fam.1.1,preceded in the case of Thomas Richard’sedi- tion by an “Argumentum”.³³ The variants between these editions and that of Camerarius are insufficient to conclude that they were based on different manuscripts. They alsofail to reflect that Gaza revisitedand corrected his version, as was common both for him and among his contemporary translators.³⁴ Twoofthe differences are worthyofnote: in Cic. Fam. 1.1.2.8, while Camera- rius printedthe very poorlyattested late form εὐεργημάτων,³⁵ Jean Loys’ and Thomas Richard’seditions preferred the classicalform, εὐεργετημάτων.³⁶ Simi- larly, while Camerarius printed πρὸ εἰδῶν and τοῖςεἰδοῖς in 3.2, Jean Loysand Thomas Richard preferred the variants πρὸἰδῶνand τοῖς ἰδοῖς.³⁷ Since it is avery brief letter,itisimpossible to ascertain which manuscript Gaza usedfor his translation. He follows Parisinus lat.17812,f.51(=R)inthe spelling of the name Volcatius (Βουλκατίος), while other manuscriptspresent ei-
Ff.Aiii–Aivinboth editions.The argumentum is as follows:ARGVMENTVM EPISTOLAE SEQVENTIS./Rex Aegypti erat pulsus regno asorore: hunc uoleban
See, for instance, . volcaciumMG:volga- M:volcatium R. Forthe readingsofCicero’s manuscripts of the Epistulae ad familiares, Ifollow D. R. Shackleton Bailey’s sigla and edition (M. Tullius Cicero. Epistulae ad familiares. Stuttgart ), but Ihavechecked Rand pointed out where Idiffer. This incunabulum presents the followingreadings: . commode facere, . Volcatius,and . tui absentis praesentisque tui. The edition by Philippus de Lavagnia (Milano circa ) presents commodo remfacere (.)and tui absentis praesentisque (. [om. tui]). At .,the ed- itio princeps has cum. Forthe sake of clarity,Ihave reproduced Sweynheim and Pannartz’stext in Appendix II. These incunabula areavailable at “Three editions side by side”,bythe Polonsky Foundation Digitalization Project (
See Salanitro, TeodoroGaza (as footnote above), –,and specificallyP. Beullens/A.Gotthelf,TheodoreGaza’stranslations of Aristotle’s De Animalibus: content, in- fluence, and date. GRBS (), – (see the bibliography quoted in note ). It was first printedbyAldus Manutiusin:Inhoc volumine haec insunt.Theodori In- troductiuae grammatices libri quatuor (…). Impressum Venetiis,inaedibus Aldi Romani, . See J. Monfasani,The Greeks and Renaissance Humanism, in S.J. Milner et al. (eds.), Hu- manism in fifteenth-century Europe. Oxford , –. ForGaza’sbiography, see footnote above. He is also creditedwith twolost translations of two treatises by Michael Savonarola, his De Balneis et thermis naturalibus omnibus Italiae sicque totius orbis proprietatibusque earum,first printedinFerrara ,and the unedited Physiognomiae speculum,onwhich see G. Zuccolin, The Speculum phisionomie by Michele Savonarola,inA.Musco (ed.), Universitality of reason. Plurality of philosophies in the Middle Ages. XII Congresso internazionale di filosofia medieval. Palermo, – settembre .Palermo , –. 744 Byzantinische Zeitschrift Bd. 113/3, 2020: I. Abteilung lation from the Latin, Cicero’s De senectute,⁴⁷ and the Pope’sletter bears acolo- phon dated 1451.⁴⁸ In Gaza’sera,Greek-Latin transactionswerehighlyappreciated for their im- provement of the knowledge of both classicallanguages. It wasapractice al- readyrecommended in classicaltimes, as testified by Plin. Epist. 7.9.2:
Utile in primis,etmulti praecipiunt,uel ex GraecoinLatinum uel ex Latino uertere in Graecum: quo genereexercitationis proprietas splendorque verborum, copia figurarum, vis explanandi,praeterea imitatione optimorum similia inveniendi facultasparatur.
Inspired in this passage, the humanist teacher Battista Guarino affirms that both translation exercises wereagood activity for those alreadyinitiated in the study of Greek:
Ubi uero aliquantum progressi fuerint,tunc uel ex GraecoinLatinum uel ex Latino in Graecum vertereincipient; in quo genereexercitationis proprietatemsplendoremque uer- borum et promptitudinem linguae facillime comparabunt.⁴⁹
The selection of Cic. Fam.1.1 might be due to the fact that his studentswerevery familiar with it,since the Epistulae ad familiares wereused, along with other cor- pora of letters by Cicerohimself, and alsoletters by Pliny, Seneca,and Jerome, as an initial tool to teach Latin, especiallyinorder to learn how to write letters in Latin, an exercise of which humanists of the time werevery fond.⁵⁰ Moreover,
His secondversion is usuallydatedinalater period, when he was probablyinRome be- tween and collaboratingwith Cardinal Bessarion. See J. E. Sandys,Ahistory of clas- sical scholarship, II. New York , ;G.Salanitro,M.Tullii Ciceronis liber (as footnote above), V–VI; and Salanitro,TeodoroGaza (as footnote above), –.For an earlier dat- ing ()ofthe first version, see E. Pinto,TeodoroGaza, Epistole. Napoli , . See Arcudius,Opuscula (as footnote above), –. B. Guarino,Deordine docendi et studendi (written circa ). ,ll. – (= C. Kallen- dorf,Humanist educational treatises.Cambridge,Mass. , –). See also Camerarius, Elementa rhetorica, : Sed quod diximus etiam tentandum, ut de Latinis Graeca faciamus:id propter linguae utriusqueexcellentem bonitate, quo maior facultas illarum acquiri et utraque cer- tius cognosci possit, diligenter est elaborandum. See W. H. Woodward (ed.), Vittorino da Feltre and other humanist educators.Cambridge , –;F.DiBenedetto, Leonzio, Omero ele“Pandette”. Italia Medioevale eUmanistica (), note ;F.Ciccolella,The Greek Donatus and the studyofGreek in the Renaissance. International Journal of the Classical Tradition (), note ;Botley,LearningGreek (as footnote above), –;and Wilson,From Byzantium (as footnote above), . See G. Constable,Letters and letter-collections.Turnhout ;A.Quondam (ed.), Le carte messagiere. Retorica emodelli di comunicazione epistolareper un indicedei libri di lettere del Cinquecento, Roma ,and R. Black,Humanism and education in medieval and Renais- G. Galán Vioque, Aforgotten translation by Theodorus Gaza 745
Guarino Veronese, father of the aforementioned Battista Guarino and teacherof Greek contemporary with Gaza, used to recommend to his studentsthe letters of Ciceroasatextbook to improvetheir Latin: Curabis quoque ut puer ipse Ciceronis epistulas secum habeat.⁵¹ Forhis son, the memorization of the letters of Cicero was highlyuseful for the improvement of declamation:
Subidem tempus et in Ciceronisepistolis declamabunt ex quibus stili tum elegantiam, tum facilitatem et sermonis puritatem ac sententiarum⁵² grauitatem adipiscentur;quas si me- moriae mandauerint,mirificos posteafructus in scribendipromptitudinepercipient.⁵³
It remains amystery as to whether Gaza planned to translate more letters of this collection, and failed to continue with this task for unknown reasons,thereby leaving an “inchoate work” as Dillerproposed.⁵⁴ This translation, however, might well have been simplyawaytoprepareanexample of translation from Latin into Greek readilyavailable for his students of Greek. Finally, duringthe Renaissance,translatingLatininto Greek was not as fashion- able as the reverse (Greek into Latin⁵⁵). Gaza was not alone in this task, however, sanceItaly: tradition and innovation in Latin schools fromthe twelfth to the fifteenth century. Cambridge , –.For letterwritingpracticesshortlyafter Gaza’stime, see J. M. Na- jemy,Between friends:discourses of powerand desireinthe Machiavelli–Vettori letters of –.Princeton , –;L.Vaillancourt,LalettrefamilièreauXVI siècle: Rhét- orique humaniste de l’épistolaire. Paris ,and A. Coroleu,Printingand reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (ca. –ca. ). Newcastle upon Tyne , –. R. Sabbadini,Epistolario di Guarino Veronese, I. Venezia , . Iprefer here the reading printedbyG.Piacente (ed.), La didattica del Greco edel latino. De ordine docendi et studendi ealtri scritti di Guarino.Bari , ,which is also testified in the antique editions: sententiarum insteadofscientiarum,the reading preferred by E. Garin,Ilpen- sieropedagogico dello umanesimo. Firenze , and Kallendorf,Humanist (as footnote above), (see Ferrara: Andreas Belfortis,c.,f.v;Heidelberg: H. Knoblochter, ,f.B;Argentorati: ex ædibusSchurerianis, ,f.Biiiiv,and even B. G. Struve’s ed- ition, p. ;see also ms. Jenensis Bos. o. ,f.v). See Guarino,Deordine docendi, ,ll. – (= Kallendorf,Humanist,asfootnote above, ). See supra. See D. P. Lockwood,Two thousand years of Latin translation from the Greek. Transactions of the American Philological Association (), –;W.Berschin,Traduzioni dal greco in latino (secoli IX–XIV), in S. Settis et al. (eds.), IGreci. Storia, cultura,arte, società, III: IGreci oltro la Grecia. Torino , –;P.Chiesa,Letraduzioniinlatino di testigreci, in G. Cavallo (ed.), Lo spazio letterario del Medioevo, :Leculture circostanti, :Laculturabizantina. Rome , –;A.Taylor,Introduction: the translationsofRenaissanceLatin. Canadian Review of ComparativeLiterature (), –;the eleven volumes alreadypublished of P. O. Kristeller et al. (eds.), Catalogustranslationum et commentariorum. Washington DC 746 Byzantinische Zeitschrift Bd. 113/3, 2020: I. Abteilung since he belonged to atradition that, starting from Byzantine times, began with Manuel Holobolos, Maximos Planudes, Georgios Pachymeres, and Sophonias (who is credited with translating aselection of sentences from the Speculum doc- trinale of Vincent de Beauvais⁵⁶), continued with authors such as Demetrios Ky- dones, his younger brother Prochoros Kydones, Manuel Kalekas,the contempo- raries of Gaza Gennadios Scholarios and Konstantinos Laskaris, and persisted with laterhumanists, such as Denis Pétauand Adrien Turnèbe.⁵⁷
Appendix I⁵⁸
Conspectus siglorum
C=consensus omnium JoachimiCamerarii editionum praeter nominatim lauda- tas.
L=M. T. Ciceronis Romani oratorisprima ad Lentulum Proconsulem Epistola, per Theodorum Graecè donata,Parisiis: excudebat IoannesLodoicus Tiletanus ex aduerso Collegii Remensis, 1542.
–;and M. Cortesi /S.Fraschi,Repertorio delle traduzioniumanistiche astampa. Secoli XV – XVI. Firenze , vol. See I. Pérez Martín,Ellibro de actor.Una traducción bizantinadel Speculum doctrinale de Beauvais (Vat.Gr. y ). Revue des Études Byzantines (), –. See V. Reichmann,Römische Literatur in griechischerÜbersetzung.Leipzig ;W.O. Schmitt,Lateinische Literatur in Byzanz. Die Übersetzungen des Maximos Planudes und die moderne Forschung. JÖB (), –;G.Salanitro,Sulle opere latine tradotte in greco dal XIII al XV secolo:nuoveprospettive di studio. Sileno (), –;F.Tinnefeld, Translations from Latin to Greek. Acontribution to lateByzantine intellectual history,inD.Sear- by (ed.), Never the twain shall meet?Latins and Greekslearningfromeach other in Byzantium. Berlin/Boston , –;and B. Rochette et al., La traduction du latin en grec àByzance: un aperçu general, in A. Garcea et al. (eds.), Latin in Byzantium I. Lateantiquity and beyond. Turnh- out , –. Ihavedisregarded differences and mistakes in accents, breathing, iota subscripts, and all minor changesbetween the editions of Camerarius’ Elementa rhetoricae,such as omissions of monosyllables and misspellings. The differences between the edition by Camerarius and that by Jean Loysand Thomas Richardhavebeen recorded, sinceIsuspect they mayreflect the use of adifferent manuscript. G. Galán Vioque, Aforgottentranslation by Theodorus Gaza 747
R=Marci T. Ciceronis Romani oratoris prima ad Lentulum Proconsulem Epistola, per Theodorum Graecè donata,Parisiis: Apud Tomam Richardum, sub bibliis aur- eis èregione Collegii Remensis, 1548
P=consensus LetR
Μάρκου Τυλλίου Κικέρωνος Ῥομαίου ἡ πρὸςτὸνΛέντουλον τὸν ἀνθύπατον ἐπι- στολὴ α᾿.
Μάρκος ὁ Κικέρων Λεντούλῳ τῷἀνθυπάτῳ εὖ πράττειν.
1 Ἐγὼ τοῖςμὲνἄλλοις ἅπασιν ἑκάστῳ τῶνκαθηκόντων, μᾶλλον δέ τινι περὶ σὲ 5 εὐσεβείᾳ ἐξαρκῶ, ἐμαυτῷ δὲ οὐδέποτε ἐξαρκέσαι ἔχω. τὸ γὰρτοι μέγεθος τῶν σῶνπρὸςἐμὲεὐεργεσιῶντηλικοῦτόν ἐστιν, ὡσθ’ ὅτι σὺ μὲνοὐπρὶντὰπρὸς ἐμὲ πεπαυμένος ἡσυχίαν ἀγάγοις, ἢ τοῦὅλου συντελεσθέντος πράγματος. ἐγὼ δὲ ταὐτὸ τοῦτο περὶ τὴνσὴνοὐκἐργάζομαι ὑπόθεσιν, πικρόντινα τὸνβίον ἐμαυ- τῷὄντα ὑπολαμβάνω. τάδε περὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα ὧδέ πως ἔχει· Ἁμμώνιος ὁ τοῦ βασι- 10 λέως πρεσβευτὴςχρήμασιν ἡμῖνδιατελεῖ μαχόμενος ἐκτοῦπροφανοῦς. πράσσε- ται δὲ διὰ τῶναὐτῶνἔτι, δι’ ὧνδὴκαὶἡνίκα παρὼνσὺἐτύγχανες, ἐπράσσετο πρότερον. τοῦ δὲ βασιλέως ἕνεκα, εἴ τινες οἱ θέλοντες εἶεν, ὀλίγοι δ’ εἰσὶ, πάντες οὗτοι εἰςΠομπήιον μεταφέρειν ἀξιοῦσι τὸ πρᾶγμα. ἡ σύγκλητος δ’ ἄρα τὴνπερὶ τὴνθρησκείαν διαβολήν, ὁσιότητι μὲνοὐδεμιᾷ, δυσνοίᾳ δὲ καὶ φθόνῳ τῆς 15 βασιλέως πολυδωρίας ἐπαινοῦσα συναποδέχεται. 2 Πομπήιον δὲ προτρέπειν τε καὶἀντιβολεῖν, καὶἐλευθερώτερον ἤδε αἰτιᾶσθαι ἔτι καὶ παραινεῖν, ἵνα τοσαύτην δυσφημίαν φεύγῃ, οὐ παυόμεθα. ὁδ’ ἄντικρυς οὐδενός, οὔθ’ ὧνδεόμεθα, οὔθ’ ὧνπαραινοῦμεν, τυγχάνειλειπόμενος. καὶ γὰρτὸμὲνἐντοῖςκαθ’ ἡμέραν λόγοις, τὸ δ’ ἐντῇσυγκλήτῳ σαφῶςοὕτω τὰ περὶ τὴνσὴνὑπόθεσιν ἠγωνίσατο, ὥστε 20 μήτ’ ἂνεὐφραδέστερον, μήτε σεμνότερον, μήτε περισπουδαστότερον, μήτε μὴνφιλονεικότερον μηδένα ἂν ἀγωνίσασθαι, καὶ σὺνμεγάλῃ δή τινι τῶνσῶν περὶ αὐτὸνεὐεργημάτων καὶ τῆςαὐτοῦ περὶ σὲ φιλίας διαμαρτυρήσει. Μάρκελ- λον δὲὀργιστικῶςτὰπρόςσεἔχοντα οἶσθα δήπου. οὗτος δὴ πλὴντῆςτοῦβασι- λέως ὑποθέσεως τῆσδε, πάντα σοι τἆλλα συνήγορος τῶνδεινοτάτων ἔσεσθαι
1 ΜΑΡΚΟΥ ΤΥΛΛΙΟΥ | ΚΙΚΕΡΩΝΟΣ ΡΟΜΑΙΟΥ ΗΠΡΟΣ | τὸνΛέντουλον τὸν ἀνθύπατον ἐπι- στολή α’.|Μάρκος ὁ Κικέρων Λεντούλῳ τῷἀνθυπάτῳ | εὖ πράττειν P:ΚΙΚΕΡΩΝ ΛΕΝΤΟΥΛΩι C|5 ἐξαρκέσαι CR:ἐξαρκέσαν L|6 τηλικοῦτόν C:τηλικοῦντόν P ὡσθ’ P:ὡστ’ C(praeter et [ὡς]) | 7 ἐγὼ δὲ PC(praeter [ἐγὼ]) | 14 δυσνοίᾳ CL:δισνοίᾳ R|15 πολυ- δωρίας C:πολυδορΐας P|18 ἡμέραν CL:ἡμέρας R|19 μήτ’ P:μήθ’C|21 σὺν CL:σὴνR| 22 εὐεργετημάτων P:εὐεργημάτων C|23 τὰ om. R|24 τῆσδε PC(praeter [τῆσγε]) σοι CL:τοι R 748 Byzantinische Zeitschrift Bd. 113/3, 2020: I. Abteilung
25 ἀποφαίνει. ὃ μὲνοὖνδίδωσι λαμβάνομεν, ὃ δὲ περὶ τῶν ὁσίων ἔγνω ἀνενεγκεῖν καὶ πολλάκις ἤδη ἀνηνέγκεν, οὐχοἷόντε ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ μεταθέσθαι. 3 πέπρακται μὲν πρὸ εἰδῶν ὧδε. ταυτὶ γὰρταῖςεἰδοῖςγέγραφα ἕωθεν. ἡ μὲν Ὁρτησίου καὶ Λευ- κόλλου καὶἐμὴγνώμη τοῖς ὁσίοις ὑπεῖξε τὰ περὶ τὸ στρατόπεδον. ἄλλως γὰρ ἀντέχεσθαι τοῦ πράγματος οὐχοἷόντε. ἡ βουλὴ δὲ προβουλεύματι τῷ γενομένῳ 30 σοῦἀναφέροντος, σοὶ τὴντοῦβασιλέως ψηφίζεται κάθοδον, ὥστε ταύτῃἂνεἴη σοι μόνον δεόντωςπρᾶξαι, εἰ τὸ μὲνστράτευμα τὰὅσια ἀφαιροῖτο, σὲ δὲἡβουλὴ περιποιοῦσα αὐθέντην χειροτονοίη. Κράσσος πρέσβεις αἱρεῖται τρεῖς, οὐδέτι Πομπήιον ἔξω τίθησι. καὶ γὰρεἶναί τινα τῶν ἡγεμονευόντων οὗτόςγεἀξιοῖ. Βίβολος δὲ τῶν ἰδιωτευόντων τρεῖς ἀποφαίνεται. τούτῳ δὲ συμφέρονται οἱ λoι- 35 ποὶ τῶν ὑπατικῶν ἅπαντες, πλὴνΣερβιλίου, ὃςοὐδ’ὅλως κατάγειν φησὶ δεῖν, καὶ πλὴνΒουλκατίου, ὃςΛύπου ἀναφέροντος ψῆφον τοῖςπερὶ Πομπήιον τίθεται, καὶ πλὴν ᾿Aφρανίου, ὃςσύμψηφος Βουλκατίῳ ἐστίν. τὸ δὲ τοιοῦτο καὶ τὰ τῆςΠομ- πηίου γνώμης ὕποπτα ἐπαυξάνει. ἦνγάρτοι προσέχουσι καὶ τοὺςαὐτοῦ Πομπη- ίου οἰκείους Βουλκατίῳ προστιθεμένους ὁρᾷν. πολὺςδὴπάνυ ἐνέστηκε πόνος 40 καὶ τὸ πρᾶγμα γέγονεν ἑτεροῤῥεπές. ἡ Λείβωνος δὲ καὶὙψαίου οὐκ ἀφανὴς σύνοδος καὶ φιλονεικίακαὶἡπάντωντῶνΠομπηίου σπουδὴ καὶ παραγγελία εἰςτοῦθ’ὑπολήψεωςτὸπρᾶγμα δὴἤγαγον, ὥστε Πομπήιον αὐτὸνγλίχεσθαιδο- κεῖντὰπερὶ τὴνκάθοδον διοικῆσαι. οἵ δ’ οὐκ ἂνβούλοιντο τούτῳ, οἱ αὐτοὶ οὗτοι σοὶ οἰκείως οὐκ ἔχουσιν, ὅτι κεκοσμηκὼςτὰπερὶ αὐτὸνεἴης. 4 ἡμεῖςδὲταύτῃ 45 που ἔλασσον περὶ τὴν ὑπόθεσιν ἀξίωμα ἔχομεν, ᾗ πλειόνων σοι ὑπόχρεῳὄντες δοκοῦμεν. τὸ δὲ τῆς ἡμετέρας γνώμης εὐχάριστον ἡ τῶν ἀνθρώπων ὑποψία, οἳ τοῖςπερὶ Πομπήιον χαρίζεσθαι ἂνοὕτως οἴονται, ἀφανίζει. καθάπερ δὲ τοι καὶ πολλῷ πρὶν ἀποκεχωρηκέναι σὲἐνθένδε, πρῶτα μὲνπαρ’ αὐτοῦ βασιλέως καὶ τῶνΠομπηίου οἰκειοτάτων καὶ συνηθεστάτων ὕπουλα γέγονεν. ἔπειταδὲ 50 παρὰ τῶν ὑπατικῶν ἐξελήλαται καὶ εἰςφθόνου προῆκται ἔσχατα. οὕτω καὶ νῦν ἐντοῖςπράγμασιν διατρίβομεν. τὰ δὲ τῆς ἡμετέρας πίστεως καὶ πρόςσεἀπόντα στοργῆς, οἱ σοὶ γνώσονται εὖ μάλα παρόντες. εἰ δέ τί που ἦνπιστὸν ἐνοἷςτὰ μάλιστα εἶναι ἐχρῆν, οὐ πάνυ τι ἂν ἐπονοῦμεν. Ἔρρωσο.
27 εἰδῶν C:ἰδῶνP εἰδοῖς C:ἰδοῖς P|29 προβουλεύματι CL:προβειλεύματι R|31 εἰ τὸ μὲν PC(praeter et [εἰ μὲν]) | 32 χειροτονοίη CL:χειρότονοι R|34 οἱ λοιποὶ CL:οἱ λιποὶ R|35 καὶ πλὴν CL:γὰρπλὴνR|36 Λύπου CL:Λίπου R|37 Βουλκατίῳ C:Βουκατίῳ P ἐστίν P:ἐστί C|39 ἐνέστηκε CL:ἐνέστικε R γέγονεν P:γέγονε C|40 καὶ CL:γὰρR| 41 ἡ CL:ἢR|42 αὐτὸν PC(praeter et [αὐτῶν]) | 43 διοικῆσαι CL:διοκήσαι R| 44 δὲ om. P|45 σοι CL:τοι R|46 οἱ CR:ὁL|47 ἀφανίζει CL:ἀφανίξει R|48 ἐνθένδε C L:ἐνθέντε R|54 Ἔρρωσο om. C G. Galán Vioque, Aforgotten translation by Theodorus Gaza 749
Appendix II⁵⁹
M. T. C. epistolarumfamiliarium liber primus ad Lentulum
Marcus T. CiceroLentulo proconsuli salutem dicit⁶⁰
1. Egoomni officio ac potius pietateergateceteris satisfacio omnibus:mihi ipse numquam satisfacio.Tanta enim magnitudo est tuorum erga me meritorum: ut cum tu nisi perfecta re de me non conquiesti: egoquia non idem in causa tua efficio:uitam mihi esse acerbam putem. In causa haec sunt.Hamonius regis le- gatus aperte pecunia nos oppugnat.Res agitur per eosdem creditores per quos cum tu aderas agebatur.Regis causa si qui sunt qui uelint qui pauci sunt omnes remadPompeium defereuolunt. Senatus religionis calumniam non reli- gione, sed maliuolentiaetillius regiae largitionisinuidia comprobat. 2. Pom- peium et hortari et orare et iam liberiusaccusareetmouereutmagnam infamiam fugiat non desistimus. Sed plane nec precibus nostris nec admonitionibus nostris reliquit locum. Nam cum in sermone cotidiano tum in senatu palam sic egit cau- sam tuam: ut neque eloquentia maiorequisquam neque grauitateneque studio nec contentione agerepotuerit.Cum summa testificatione tuorum in se officio- rum et amoris erga te sui. Marcellinum tibi esse iratum scis.Ishac regiscausa excepta caeteris in rebus se acerrimum tui defensorem fore ostendit.Quod dat accipimus.Quod instituit referredereligione: et saepe iam retulit ab eo deduci non potest. 3. Res ante idus acta sic est.Nam haec idibus mane scripsi. Hortensii et mea ex Luculi sententia cedit religioni de exercitu. Teneri resaliter non potest. Sed ex illo senatus consulto qui te referentefactum est tibi decernit: ut regem deducas. Quod commode facerepossis ut exercitum religio tollat: te auctorem senatus retineat.Crassus tris legatos decernit: Nec excluditPompeium. Censet enim iam ex his qui cum imperio sint.Bibulus tris legatos ex his qui priuati sunt.Huic assentiuntur reliqui consulares praeter seruilium qui omnino reduci negat oportere: et Volcatium qui Lupo referentePompeio decernit.EtAffranium qui assentitur Volcatio. Quae resauget suspicionem Pompei uoluntatis.Nam
Ihaveused the copy held at the University of Valencia (Spain), with bookshelf BH Inc. , and have regularized the use of capital letters, some common confusions,such as the use of c/t, and the evident omission of certain letters, and have added the paragraphnumbers used in modern editions. These twolines have been added by hand. Other copies, such as the volumes in the Vatican Library (Inc. III )orinthe NationalLibrary of France (RES-Z-), present differences in word- ing. 750 Byzantinische Zeitschrift Bd. 113/3, 2020: I. Abteilung aduertebatur Pompei familiares assentireVolcatio. Laboratur uehementer.Incli- nata resest.Libonis et Hispei non obscura concursatio et contentio omniumque Pompei familiarium studium in eam opinionem remutPompeius adduxerunt cu- pere uideatur.Cui qui uolunt idem tibi: quod eum ornasti non sunt amici. 4. Nos in causa auctoritatem eo minorem habemus:quod tibi debemus.Gratiam autem nostram exstinguit hominum suspicio, quod Pompeio se gratificari putant.Vtin rebus multoantequam profectus es: ab ipso regeetabintimis ac domesticis Pom- pei clam exulceratis.Deinde palam aconsularibus exagitatis et in summam in- uidiam adductis ita uersamur.Nostram fidem omnes amoremtui absentis prae- sentisque tui cognoscent.Siesset in his fides in quibus summa esse debebat non laboraremus.