Att. 11.1Quibus ex malīs ut sē ēmersit, nihil aliud ēgit quam ut quam plūrimīs, quibus rēbus posset, esset auxiliō.As soon as he emerged from these troubles, he did nothing else than give help to as many people as possible in whatever ways he could. Att. 11.1Cum prōscrīptōs praemiīs imperātōrum vulgus conquīreret, nēmō in Ēpīrum vēnit, cui rēs ūlla dēfuerit: nēminī nōn ibi perpetuō manendī potestās facta est;When the common people, lured by the generals' rewards, were hunting down the proscribed, nobody came to Epirus who lacked anything: everyone was granted the right to stay there permanently; Att. 11.2quīn etiam post proelium Philippēnse interitumque C. Cassiī et M. Brūtī L. Iūlium Mocillam praetōrium et fīlium eius Aulumque Torquātum cēterōsque parī fortūnā perculsōs īnstituit tuērī atque ex Ēpīrō iīs omnia Samothrāciam supportārī iussit.indeed, after the battle of Philippi and the deaths of Gaius Cassius and Marcus Brutus, he undertook to protect Lucius Julius Mocilla, a former praetor, and his son, and Aulus Torquatus and the others struck down by the same fortune, and ordered everything to be conveyed to them from Epirus to Samothrace. Att. 11.2Difficile est omnia persequī et nōn necessārium.It is difficult to go through everything, and not necessary.
Att. 11.3Illud ūnum intellegī volumus, illīus līberālitātem neque temporāriam neque callidam fuisse.This one thing we wish to be understood, that his generosity was neither opportunistic nor calculating. Att. 11.4Id ex ipsīs rēbus ac temporibus iūdicārī potest, quod nōn flōrentibus sē venditāvit, sed afflīctīs semper succurrit: quī quidem Servīliam, Brūtī mātrem, nōn minus post mortem eius quam flōrentem coluerit.This can be judged from the facts and the circumstances themselves, because he did not court the prosperous but always came to the help of the afflicted: indeed he showed no less regard for Servilia, the mother of Brutus, after his death than when she was flourishing. Att. 11.5Sīc līberālitāte ūtēns nūllās inimīcitiās gessit, quod neque laedēbat quemquam neque, sī quam iniūriam accēperat, nōn mālēbat oblīvīscī quam ulcīscī.Practising generosity in this way, he had no feuds, because he neither injured anyone nor, if he had received some wrong, did he fail to prefer forgetting it to avenging it. Att. 11.5Īdem immortālī memoriā percepta retinēbat beneficia;He also kept the kindnesses he had received in undying memory; Att. 11.5quae autem ipse tribuerat, tam diū meminerat, quoad ille grātus erat, quī accēperat.but those he himself had bestowed he remembered only as long as the man who had received them remained grateful.
Att. 11.6Itaque hic fēcit ut vērē dictum videātur: "Suī cuique mōrēs fingunt fortūnam hominibus."And so he made it seem truly said: 'Each man's own character shapes his fortune.' Att. 11.6Neque tamen ille prius fortūnam quam sē ipse finxit, quī cāvit nē qua in rē iūre plecterētur.Yet he did not shape his fortune before he had shaped himself, taking care that he should not deservedly be punished in any matter.