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

Letter CXXVII: Marcus Aurelius to Marcus Cornelius Fronto

W e too love Gratia the more for her likeness to you.1 So we can easily understand how our little girl's likeness to both of us endears her to you, and in every way it is a delight to me that you have seen her. Farewell, my best of masters.

? 154–156 A.D.

To my Lord.

1 Ehrenthal thinks that Marcus should have said: 'We too love you the more because Gratia is like you. (So we can understand how our likeness to our baby endears us to you.)'
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