Epistulae ad Atticum

Epistulae ad Atticum, Letters to Atticus, is a collection of letters written by the Roman statesman and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero to his close friend Titus Pomponius Atticus between 68 and 43 BC. Of Cicero's 813 surviving letters, 454 are addressed to Atticus, making the collection the largest single block of his correspondence. The letters read as a candid, largely private record of Cicero's daily concerns and political calculations, and together with his other correspondence they are counted among the most reliable surviving sources for the last decades of the Roman Republic. They appear to have remained unpublished until well after both men had died, and the collection survived through a manuscript that the poet Petrarch found in Verona in 1345, from which later printed editions, including a 1558 Venetian edition, descend.