Translation

• 1.nihil vide tam mite, nihil tam placidum quam meus frater illo die

  2.erat in sororem tuam. si offensio fuerat ex ratione sumptus, non

  3.apparet.

  I have never seen anything so mild, nothing as calm as my brother was on that day towards your sister. If there had been any offence caused by the checking of expenditure, it was not apparent .
• postridie


  The next day
• We set out from Arpinum

  1. Went to Arcanum

  2. Took lunch
• Quintus: ''Pomponia, you call in the women, and I shall summon the men.''
• Quintus' words and attitude


  Nothing could have been sweeter
• Pomponia said 'I am [only] a guest here myself'
• Statius had gone ahead


  To see to lunch for us
• Quintus: ''You see, this is what I endure every day.''
• Pomponia responded unreasonably and harshly in both her words and look
• We all reclined to eat except for her
• Quintus sent her something from the table, which she just sent back
• Quintus' brother


  Nothing milder
• Quintus' sister


  Nothing harsher
• Many similar events were passed over