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THE CORRESPONDENCE OF

M. CORNELIUS FRONTO

Marcus Antoninus to Fronto

162 A.D.

To my master.

In what holiday-wise we have kept our holiday at Alsium^[1] I will not put on paper, that you may not be yourself troubled and scold me, my master. On my return to Lorium^[2] I found my little lady^[3] slightly feverish. The doctor says, if we soon . . . . . . . . . . . .^{[† 1]} If you were well, I should be happier. For I hope to see you already enjoying the use of sound eyes . . . . Farewell, my master.

Fronto to Marcus Antoninus

162 A.D.

To my Lord Antoninus Augustus.

Your Alsian holiday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .^{[† 2]} of many rustic things. That Cato also in his speech Against Lepidus mentioned a word in everyone's mouth when he spoke of statues^[4] set up to such unmanly creatures as

1. On the Etrurian coast, twenty-four miles from Rome.
2. Half-way to Alsium from Rome.
3. Probably his daughter Cornificia.
4. According to Plutarch, Cato preferred that statues of himself should be conspicuous by their absence.

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2. In these lacunae twelve lines are lost.