Letter CXXVI · C. R. Haines (1919) · Loeb Classical Library

Letter CXXVI: Marcus Cornelius Fronto to Marcus Aurelius

I love you ten times as much—I have seen your daughter!1 I seem to have seen you as well as Faustina in your infancy: so much that is good in both your faces is blended in hers. I love you ten times as much. Farewell, sweetest of Lords. Greet your Lady.

? 154–156 A.D.

To my master.

1 Probably Domitia Faustina, who died as an infant. See inscription on the Moles Hadriana, Orelli 672 = Willmi. 964. Cornificia, the next daughter, was not born till about 159.
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