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.