iora pericula
timebamus; sed nauta quidam, vir fortissimus, ex nave in fluctus iratos
desiluit [18]ut funem ad litus portaret; quam rem summo labore vix
effecit. Ita omnes servati sumus. Gratias igitur et honorem Neptuno
debemus, qui deus nos e periculo eripuit. Nunc Athenis[19] sum, quo
confugi ut mihi paucas horas ad quietem darem.[20] Quam primum autem
aliam navem conducam ut iter ad Italiam reliquum conficiam et domum[21]
ad meos caros revertar. Saluta nostrum Publium amicissime et valetudinem
tuam cura diligenter. [22]Kalendis Martiis."

[Footnote 1: _was ten years old_.]

[Footnote 2: /annos\, Sec. 501.21.]

[Footnote 3: /domum\, Sec. 501.20.]

[Footnote 4: /populo\, dat. with inimicas, cf. Sec. 501.16.]

[Footnote 5: /Lentulo\, Sec. 501.33.]

[Footnote 6: /ut ... nuntiaret\, Sec. 501.40.]

[Footnote 7: /dies\, cf. annos, 1. 9.]

[Footnote 8: /animis\, abl. of manner. Do you see one in line 15?]

[Footnote 9: This is the usual form for the beginning of a Latin
letter. First we have the greeting, and then the expression Si
vales, etc. The date of the letter is usually given at the end, and
also the place of writing, if not previously mentioned in the
letter.]

[Footnote 10: /quo\, _where_.]

[Footnote 11: /dis est gratia\, _thank God_, in our idiom.]

[Footnote 12: Asia refers to the Roman province of that name in Asia
Minor.]

[Footnote 13: /altum mare tenuimus\, _we were well out to sea._]

[Footnote 14: /nec iam\, _and no longer_.]

[Footnote 15: /adflictati\, perf. passive part. _tossed about_.]

[Footnote 16: What construction?]

[Footnote 17: /die\, Sec. 501.35.]

[Footnote 18: /ut ... portaret\, Sec. 501.40.]

[Footnote 19: /Athenis\, Sec. 501.36.1.]

[Footnote 20: /darem\, cf. /portaret\, l. 6.]

[Footnote 21: Why not /ad domum\?]

[Footnote 22: /Kalendis Martiis\, _the Calends_ or _first of March_;
abl. of time, giving the date of the letter.]

LXIV. LENTULUS REACHES HOME : PUBLIUS VISITS POMPEII WITH HIS FATHER

Post paucos dies navis M. Corneli Lentuli portum Miseni[1] petiit, qui
portus non longe a Pompeiis situs est; quo in portu classis Romana
ponebatur et ad pugnas navalis ornabatur. Ibi naves omnium generum
conspici poterant. Iamque incredibili celeritate navis longa qua
Lentulus vehebatur litori adpropinquavit; nam non solum vento sed etiam
remis impellebat