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

Letter CLXIX: Marcus Cornelius Fronto to Praecilius Pompeianus

M y very dear friend Pompeianus, read . . . . . . . . Venetus1 is for sale. You know that it is the perpetual fate of Venetus to be always going, never gone . . . . . . . . He writes in answer that he has never received my letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

? 162 A.D.

Fronto to Claudius Julianus, greeting.

1 Venetus may be a proper name, or = Venetianus (i.e. a partizan of the "Blues" in the Circus), or mean a Venetian.
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