Att. 9.1Secūtum est bellum gestum apud Mutinam.Next followed the war waged at Mutina. Att. 9.1In quō sī tantum eum.In this war, if I were to call him merely. Att. 9.1Prūdentem dīcam, minus quam dēbeam praedicem, cum ille potius dīvīnus fuerit, sī dīvīnātiō appellanda est perpetua nātūrālis bonitās, quae nūllīs cāsibus agitātur neque minuitur.Prudent, I should praise him less than I ought, since he was rather inspired, if one is to call by the name of divination a constant natural goodness which is shaken and diminished by no turns of fortune. Att. 9.2Hostis Antōnius iūdicātus Ītaliā cesserat: spēs restituendī nūlla erat.Antony, declared a public enemy, had left Italy: there was no hope of his restoration. Att. 9.2Nōn sōlum inimīcī, quī tum erant potentissimī et plūrimī, sed etiam quī adversāriīs eius sē venditābant et in eō laedendō aliquam cōnsecūtūrōs spērābant commoditātem, Antōniī familiārēs īnsequēbantur, uxōrem Fulviam omnibus rēbus spoliāre cupiēbant, līberōs etiam exstinguere parābant.Not only his personal enemies, who were then very powerful and very numerous, but also those who were selling themselves to his opponents and hoped to gain some advantage by injuring him, were persecuting Antony's friends, longed to strip his wife Fulvia of all her property, and were even preparing to destroy his children.
Att. 9.3Atticus, cum Cicerōnis intimā familiāritāte ūterētur, amīcissimus esset Brūtō, nōn modo nihil iīs indulsit ad Antōnium violandum, sed ē contrāriō familiārēs eius ex urbe profugientēs, quantum potuit, tēxit, quibus rēbus indiguērunt, adiūvit.Atticus, though he enjoyed the closest friendship with Cicero and was a great friend of Brutus, not only gave them no encouragement towards harming Antony, but on the contrary sheltered his friends as far as he could as they fled from the city, and helped them with whatever they needed. Att. 9.4Pūbliō vērō Volumniō ea tribuit, ut plūra ā parente proficīscī nōn potuerint.To Publius Volumnius indeed he gave such help that no more could have come from a parent. Att. 9.4Ipsī autem Fulviae, cum lītibus distinērētur magnīsque terrōribus vexārētur, tantā dīligentiā officium suum praestitit, ut nūllum illa stiterit vadimōnium sine Atticō, Atticus spōnsor omnium rērum fuerit.To Fulvia herself, when she was distracted by lawsuits and harassed by great terrors, he performed his duty with such diligence that she never answered a summons to court without Atticus, and Atticus was her surety in everything. Att. 9.5Quīn etiam, cum illa fundum secundā fortūnā ēmisset in diem neque post calamitātem versūram facere potuisset, ille sē interposuit pecūniamque sine faenore sineque ūllā stipulātiōne crēdidit, maximum exīstimāns quaestum, memorem grātumque cognōscī, simulque aperiēns sē nōn fortūnae, sed hominibus solēre esse amīcum.Indeed, when in her prosperity she had bought an estate on credit for a fixed date, and after her disaster could not raise a loan, he intervened and lent her the money without interest and without any formal bond, thinking it the greatest profit to be known as mindful and grateful, and at the same time showing that he was accustomed to be a friend not to fortune but to people.
Att. 9.6Quae cum faciēbat, nēmō eum temporis causā facere poterat exīstimāre: nēminī enim in opīniōnem veniēbat Antōnium rērum potītūrum.And when he was doing these things, no one could think he did them to suit the times: for it entered nobody's mind that Antony would gain supreme power. Att. 9.7Sed sēnsus eius ā nōnnūllīs optimātibus reprehendēbātur, quod parum ōdisse malōs cīvēs vidērētur.But his attitude was criticised by some of the optimates, because he seemed not to hate bad citizens enough. Att. 9.7Ille autem, suī iūdiciī, potius quid sē facere pār esset intuēbātur quam quid aliī laudātūrī forent.He, however, being a man of his own judgement, looked rather to what it was right for him to do than to what others would praise.