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

Letter LXXVIII: Marcus Cornelius Fronto to Marcus Aurelius

I am truly thankful to the Gods that they have kept you safe and unharmed.1 You, I make no doubt, were unperturbed, for I know your philosophic views; for myself, however much you wiseacres may laugh at me, I confess I was thoroughly shocked. Farewell, my most sweet Lord, and may the Gods have you in their keeping. Greet my Lady.

145–147 A.D.

To my Lord.

1 If Fronto here refers to the scorpion incident, it is curious that he does not enquire for the rest of the family.
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