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

Letter LXXXIX: Marcus Aurelius to Marcus Cornelius Fronto

W hen did it occur and was it at Rome? Do you mean that it took place under Domitian at his Alban Villa.1 Besides in such a theme it will take more time to make the fact credible than to treat it with the indignation it deserves. It seems to me an improbable subject. I certainly should have preferred one such as I asked for. Let me know the date by return.

145–147 A.D.

To my master, greeting.

1 Afterwards became the town of Albanum. Dio, lxvii. 1, describes it. He tells us (lxvii. 14, § 6) that Acilius Glabrio (supposed to have become subsequently a Christian) fought with wild beasts (cp. Juvenal, 4, 95). Suetonius (Domit. 10) informs us that he was put to death by Domitian.
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