1You write that, terrified by a dream, you fear you may suffer some setback in 1your case; 1you ask me to seek an adjournment and to excuse you for a very few days, at least for the next. 1It is difficult, but I shall try, 'for a dream too comes from Zeus'. 2It matters, however, whether you usually dream of things that will happen or of their opposites. 2When I think over a dream of my own, this one which you fear seems to me to portend an excellent pleading. 3I had taken on the case of Junius Pastor, when, as I slept, my mother-in-law seemed to fall at my knees and beg me not to plead; 3and I was about to plead while still a very young man, I was about to plead before the fourfold court, I was about to plead against the most powerful men of the state and even friends of Caesar, any one of which things could have shaken my resolve after so gloomy a dream.
4Yet I pleaded, reasoning that saying, 'One omen is best, to fight for one's country.' 4For my loyalty to my word seemed to me my country, and anything dearer than my country. 4It turned out well, and indeed that pleading opened men's ears to me, and opened the door of fame. 5So consider whether you too, following this example, can turn that dream of yours to good; 5or if you think it safer to follow that precept of every most cautious man, 'What you are in doubt of, do not do', write back just that. 6I shall find some trick and plead your case, so that you can plead it when you wish.
6For your situation is certainly different from what mine was. 6For a case before the Centumviral court can in no way be postponed, but yours can, with difficulty indeed, but still it can. 6Farewell.