M. CORNELIUS FRONTO
the best thing in friendship. Then as to my health, about which you enquire, I had already written to you that I was suffering so much pain in the shoulder that I could not succeed in writing the very letter in which I mentioned it, but, contrary to my usual custom, had to employ another hand . . . .
Marcus Aurelius to Fronto
To my master, greeting.
These things at present[† 1] . . . . Farewell, my dearest Fronto, my mother greets you. Greet our consul[1] and our lady.
Fronto to Marcus Aurelius as Caesar
To my Lord.
If you have any love at all for me, sleep those nights that you may come into the Senate[2] with a good colour and read with a strong voice.
M. Aurelius to Fronto
To my master.
I can never love you enough: I will sleep.
Fronto to Marcus as Caesar
To my Lord.
For pity's sake, cancel one word from your speech and, I entreat you, never use it—dictio for oratio. Farewell, my Lord, my everlasting glory. Greet my Lady your mother.
- ↑ It is not known who is referred to.
- ↑ For his speech of thanks as consul (145 A.D.) or as invested with Trib. Pot. (147).
- ↑ These words are from the Index. Apart from them four pages are lost from nostrum in the previous letter.
