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

Letter CLV: Marcus Cornelius Fronto to Marcus Aurelius

Y our Alsian holiday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1 of many rustic things. That Cato also in his speech Against Lepidus mentioned a word in everyone's mouth when he spoke of statues2 set up to such unmanly creatures as Ocha and Dionysodorus who practised cooking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a beginning of singing and playing . . . . . . . .3

Fronto to Marcus

162 A.D.

To my Lord Antoninus Augustus.

1 In these lacunae twelve lines are lost.
2 According to Plutarch, Cato preferred that statues of himself should be conspicuous by their absence.
3 From opportune to paravit the Codex has eleven lines not deciphered.
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