M. CORNELIUS FRONTO
write to you of that adventure, but here comes the messenger to call me to my bath. Farewell, my sweetest of masters, most honoured and most unique of men, my joy, my treasure, my delight.
Marcus Aurelius to Fronto
To my master.
Gratia[1] the younger has served, as the elder Gratia did, to calm our anxiety for the while or sweep it altogether away at once. I thank you on behalf of my patron, M. Porcius, for the frequency with which you read him: you will never, I fear, be able to return me the compliment with respect to Gaius Crispus,[2] for to M. Porcius alone have I devoted, aye and engaged, aye and given myself over heart and soul. Whence, too, think you, comes this very aye and?[3] From my very enthusiasm. The day after to-morrow shall be my gala day, if you really are coming. Farewell, dearest and most unique of men, sweetest of masters.
On the day of this Senate we seem more likely to be here than go there. But nothing is decided. Do von but come the day after to-morrow, and then let what will befall, Fare ever well for me, soul of mine. My mother greets you and yours.
Marcus Aurelius to Fronto
To my master.
You, when you are away from me, read Cato; but I, when away from you, listen to lawyers till
- ↑ As Gratia, Fronto's daughter, married Victorinus about the year 160, she is not likely to have been more than two or three years old, at the most, in 143.
- ↑ i.e. Sallust; M. Porcius is Cato.
- ↑ This repeated use of atque was a habit of Cato's.
