Att. 12.1Hīs igitur rēbus effēcit ut M. Vipsānius Agrippa, intimā familiāritāte coniūnctus adulēscentī Caesarī, cum propter suam grātiam et Caesaris potentiam nūllīus condiciōnis nōn habēret potestātem, potissimum eius dēligeret affīnitātem praeoptāretque equitis Rōmānī fīliam generōsārum nūptiīs.By these means, then, he brought it about that Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, bound by close friendship to the young Caesar, though through his own influence and Caesar's power he could have had any match he chose, picked his family above all for an alliance by marriage, and preferred the daughter of a Roman knight to marriages with women of noble birth. Att. 12.2Atque hārum nūptiārum conciliātor fuit (nōn est enim cēlandum) M. Antōnius, triumvirum reī pūblicae cōnstituendae.And the man who arranged this marriage (for it must not be concealed) was Mark Antony, triumvir for settling the state. Att. 12.2Cuius grātiā cum augēre possessiōnēs posset suās, tantum āfuit ā cupiditāte pecūniae, ut nūllā in rē ūsus sit eā nisi in dēprecandīs amīcōrum aut perīculīs aut incommodīs.Although through Antony's influence he could have increased his own possessions, he was so far from greed for money that he made use of it in nothing except in begging off the dangers or the misfortunes of his friends.
Att. 12.3Quod quidem sub ipsā prōscrīptiōne perillūstre fuit.This was indeed especially conspicuous during the proscription itself. Att. 12.3Nam cum L. Saufēī equitis Rōmānī, aequālis suī, quī complūrēs annōs studiō ductus philosophiae habitābat Athēnīs habēbatque in Ītaliā pretiōsās possessiōnēs, trēsvirī bona vēndidissent cōnsuētūdine eā, quā tum rēs gerēbantur, Atticī labōre atque industriā factum est ut eōdem nūntiō Saufēius fieret certior sē patrimōnium āmīsisse et recuperāsse.For when the triumvirs had sold the property of Lucius Saufeius, a Roman knight of his own age, who, led by his devotion to philosophy, had been living for several years at Athens and had valuable estates in Italy, following the practice by which affairs were then conducted, it was brought about by the effort and diligence of Atticus that Saufeius learned by the same message that he had lost his patrimony and recovered it. Att. 12.4Īdem L. Iūlium Calidum, quem post Lucrētiī Catullīque mortem multō ēlegantissimum poētam nostram tulisse aetātem vērē videor posse contendere, neque minus virum bonum optimīsque artibus ērudītum, post prōscrīptiōnem equitum propter magnās eius Āfricānās possessiōnēs in prōscrīptōrum numerum ā P. Volumniō, praefectō fabrum Antōniī, absentem relātum expedīvit.He likewise extricated Lucius Julius Calidus, who I think I can truly maintain was by far the most elegant poet our age has produced since the deaths of Lucretius and Catullus, and no less a good man and one trained in the finest arts, when after the proscription of the knights he had been entered in his absence on the list of the proscribed by Publius Volumnius, Antony's chief of engineers, because of his great African estates.
Att. 12.5Quod in praesentī utrum eī labōriōsius an glōriōsius fuerit, difficile est iūdicāre, quod in eōrum perīculīs nōn secus absentēs quam praesentēs amīcōs Atticō esse cūrae cognitum est.Whether this was more laborious or more glorious for him at the time is difficult to judge, since it became known that in their dangers Atticus cared for his friends no less when absent than when present.