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

Letter LXXIII: Marcus Cornelius Fronto to Marcus Aurelius

A fter you had set out, I was seized with pain in the knee, but so slight that I could both walk slowly and use a carriage. To-night the pain has come on more violently, but so that I can easily bear it lying down, if it gets no worse. I hear that your Augusta is poorly. I pray the Gods, indeed, to have care of her health. Farewell, most sweet Lord. Greet my Lady.1

145–147 A.D.

To my Lord.

1 Either Faustina or the mother of Marcus. By Augusta is meant Faustina the younger, who received this title on her marriage to Marcus in 145.
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