ὀλίγοι τινὲς ὧν ἐντετύχηκα → a very few whom I've met
absentĭa: ae, f. absum,I absence: confer absentiam tuam cum meā, Cic. Pis. 16, 37; Anton. ap. Cic. Att. 14, 13, A; Quint. 4, 2, 70; Tac. A. 4, 64 al.: testimoniorum, want of, Quint. 5, 7, 1.