Letter coll=A:book=2:letter=22 Letter VIII: ad Atticum 2.22
Rome, Aug. or Sept., 59 B.C.
The excited tone and the abrupt style of the letter betray the writer's appreciation of the imminence of the danger threatening him.
[sect. 1]
quam vellem Romae: if the text is correct, either to be connected with the greeting (cf. Fam. 1.10), or an extreme case of ellipsis, with te esse understood. Cf. Att. 13.21.6 de Caesaris adventie scripsit ad me Balbus non ante Eat; 13.2.1 Pisonem sicubi (poteris, conveni, Ut) de auro (coificias), and Intr. 95.
Pulchellum: cf. Ep. V.10n.
nunc: in the existing state of affairs, in contrast to what would have been true had Atticus remained. - denuntiat (sc. vim): the absolute use of denuntio is remarkable. See Crit. Append.
eos: i.e. the triumvirs.
exercitus: the force awaiting Caesar in Gaul.