THE CORRESPONDENCE OF
M. CORNELIUS FRONTO
Marcus Antoninus to Fronto
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
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
- ↑ On the Etrurian coast, twenty-four miles from Rome.
- ↑ Half-way to Alsium from Rome.
- ↑ Probably his daughter Cornificia.
- ↑ According to Plutarch, Cato preferred that statues of himself should be conspicuous by their absence.
B 2