Translating Pliny's Indirect Statement
In the passage below, which of the following is the most accurate and idiomatic English translation of the clause ‘me cum omnibus, omnia mecum perire misero… credidissem’?
Possem gloriari non gemitum mihi, non vocem parum fortem in tantis periculis excidisse, nisi me cum omnibus, omnia mecum perire misero, magno tamen mortalitatis solacio credidissem. (Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 6.20.19)
I believed that everyone was dying with me, and I with everything, wretchedly
I believed that all things were perishing with everyone, and I wretchedly with them
I thought that I was dying miserably with all people and all things together
I had believed that I, poor wretch, was perishing with everyone, and that everything was perishing with me
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