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M. CORNELIUS FRONTO

services, assured of the reality of our love . . . . With a friend I would wish all joys and sorrows shared . . . . . . . . . . . . it came to this that he was not only my dearest friend, but almost the single one who . . . .

? 162 A.D.

Fronto to Claudius Julianus, greeting.

I know not how it comes to pass . . . . all the provincials say; to do many things also more laboriously than the case itself requires: memoranda of the trials, lastly all letters which relate to the province. They will assist you . . . .^{[† 1]} that you should diligently perform all your duties . . . .^{[† 2]} treat the provincials with respect, that the saying of the classic ancients may be verified, that the same man can be both sportive and strenuous. Valerianus^[1] . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .^{[† 3]} ; nor was our friend Valerianus able to see me. I desire not to be loved by our Lords the Emperors^[2] on any other terms than that you too the partner of my body and mind should be included in their love: and such is their good nature I feel sure that this will be so.

While writing to you, I feel a little better. I am still indeed at this time after my most protracted ill-health, which in spite of care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . roughly handled, I delivered in the Senate . . . .^{[† 4]} was asked to repeat it. Be sure, my Naucellius, to take care of your health, that you may be strong when you come to us. Please God

1. Possibly the master of the emperor Pertinax (see Capit. Vit. Pert. 12).
2. Marcus Antoninus and Lucius Verus (161–169).

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