[This is the second of two letters from July 27th.]
Yes, indeed, I should have been very comfortable here, and more so every day, had it not been for the reason which I mentioned to you in my previous letter.
Nothing could be pleasanter than the solitude of this place, except for the occasional inroads of the ‘son of Amyntas.’* What a bore he is with his endless babble! In other respects don't imagine that anything could be more delightful than this villa. But all this doesn't deserve a longer letter, and I have nothing else to say and am very sleepy.
Read Ad Atticum 12.9 in Latin here | Check the glossary here
Notes from the translator, E.S. Shuckburgh:
the ‘son of Amyntas’—L. Marcius Philippus, step-father of Augustus. He calls him in jest the ‘son of Amyntas,’ the name of the father of Philip king of Macedonia.