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

Letter CLV: Marcus Cornelius Fronto to Marcus Aurelius

Your 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.

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