M. CORNELIUS FRONTO
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Fronto to Passienus Rufus,[2] greeting.
Aemilius Pius[3] is endeared to me both by the refinement of his tastes and the absolute integrity of his character. I commend him to you, my brother. I am not unaware that hitherto we have not been on the terms of correspondents, though I have known of you through common friends as an excellent man and a lover of the noble arts, and you perhaps have heard me well spoken of. Yet I could find no fairer prospect of establishing a close friendship with you than the occasion of recommending to your favour an excellent young man. Love him, I beseech you: I ask this for his sake, but also for my own. For you will love me too the more, the more intimate with Pius you become. Pius knows all my heart, and how very much I desire to enter into close friendship with such men as yourself.
Fronto to Avidius Cassius,[4] greeting.
Junius Maximus the tribune, who brought the laurelled[5] letter, not only discharged his public
- ↑ There was another letter to Arrius in the Codex, but we have only its title in the Index (Naber, p. 189; Ambr. 277 or 292) and the first two words, Valerianus Clitianus.
- ↑ Possibly consul in 149, and, if so, proconsul about 164, for at this time about fifteen years separated the two offices.
- ↑ Probably a pupil of Fronto's.
- ↑ The ablest general in the Parthian war. He afterwards, in 175, revolted against Marcus, and after a six months dream of empire was assassinated.
- ↑ In token of victory on the successful termination of tht Parthian war. So in the Peninsular war our coaches ran down through the country decked with laurel when a victory had been won.
- ↑ Two pages are lost before the next letter (III viris et Decurionibus) Ambr. 306.
