M. CORNELIUS FRONTO
difficult it is to console you when absent by letter. And I do not ask you to cease grieving—for it would be useless to ask that—but to grieve with some moderation . . . .[† 1]
Fronto to Junius Maximus, greeting.
By our friend Ulpius[1] . . . . (this) eulogizer of your probity and dignity, whom I desire you to send back to me speedily. For there is no one with whom I am on such intimate terms, or with whom I am wont so much to share my pursuits and love ot the noble arts. He will be still more delightful to me when we exchange our mutual reminiscences and views of you.
Fronto to Squilla Gallicanus,[† 2] greeting.
Yours has been a happier lot,[2] my lord brother, for you have felt nervous for your son on the spot, than mine, who have had to endure my nervousness at home. For your nervousness was easily allayed with the completion of the pleading, while I did not cease to be nervous until all my pupil housemates had brought me news of the success with which our orator had conducted the case. And you, indeed, at each separate triumph of the speech, as each
- ↑ Possibly the famous jurist Ulpius Marcellus, who was one of the Consilium of Marcus.
- ↑ Fronto writes to his friend Gallicanus on the success of his son at the bar. This son was evidently one of his pupils who lived in his house (contubernales). The word dominus had come to be used as a complimentary title with filius and frater.
- ↑ Two pages are missing between this and what we have of the next letter. These contained three letters, probably like this one, letters of consolation, for the margin has consolatoriae. See Index (Naber, p. 172; Ambr. 337): (1) Iunio Maximo; Humani casus homini. . . . (2) Praecilio Pompeiano: Labris eius labra fovi. . . . (3) Sardio Saturnino: Hortatus sum constanter. . . .
- ↑ Consul in 150.
