Y ou have had then at home, my Naucellius,1 . . . . Our friendship has been on such a footing that we could dispense with these conventional services, assured of the reality of our love . . . . With a friend I would wish all joys and sorrows shared . . . . . . . . . . . . it came to this that he was not only my dearest friend, but almost the single one who . . . .
? 162 A.D.
Fronto to Claudius Julianus, greeting.