M. CORNELIUS FRONTO
dation and your own constant practice to extend to him that characteristic kindness, which you habitually show to all. Farewell, my sweetest Lord.
Marcus Aurelius to Fronto.
Answer.
Pompeianus has won my esteem also by the same deserts which have endeared him to you. So I desire that in accordance with the Lord my father's indulgent ways everything should second his wishes. For whatever falls out as you desire is a joy to me. Farewell, my most delightful of masters. Faustina and our little girls[1] greet you.
Marcus Aurelius to Fronto.
To my master.
If in your province,[2] my master, you come across a certain Themistocles, who says that he is known to Apollonius my teacher[3] in philosophy, understand that he is a person who came to Rome this winter and was brought to my notice by Apollonius the son, at his father's request. May I ask you, my master, to befriend him, and advise him, as far as you can. For you will, I know, be always most ready to do what is just and proper by all Asians, but counsel and courtesy and all those personal
- ↑ Lucilla and Arria Fudilla, the latter born about 150 A.D.
- ↑ Asia. Fronto was consul in 143, and the usual interval between the consulship and proconsulate at this time was twelve to fifteen years. But Fronto may have had his appointment accelerated in consideration of his age or health.
- ↑ Marcus speaks very highly of him (Thoughts, i. 8; 17, § 4), and Epiphanius calls him ἔταιρος Ἀντωνίνου. But see Capit. Vit. Pii, x. § 4, and Lucian, Demonax, § 31.
