I did not write to you in the morning, hearing that you were better, and being myself engaged in other business; and I never care to write at all to you unless my mind is unbent and at ease and free. Therefore, if our news is correct, assure me of it. For you know what I wish, and I know how rightly I wish it. Farewell, my master, so rightly first in my thoughts before all others on all occasions. See, my master, I am not sleepy, yet force myself to sleep that you may not be angry. You realize, at any rate, that I am writing this in the evening.
Signia, ? 144–145 A.D.
M. Caesar to his master M. Fronto, greeting.