Lucius Verus→Marcus Cornelius Fronto|c. 165 AD|Marcus Cornelius Fronto|From Rome (career hub)|To Rome (career hub)|AI-assisted
To the Emperor Verus, 1.9
To my master.
1. I have no doubt at all, my dearest master, that even if I say nothing you are certain how great a bitterness every sorrow of yours, even the slightest, is to me. For indeed, since you have lost almost at one and the same time both a wife dear to you through so many years and a most sweet grandson, the greatest pity [...] and you have come to know woes too grievous for me to dare to console my master with learned words. But it is the part of a father's heart, full of love and devotion, to pour itself out [...] a task [...] in a time of grief you have deliberated, troubled in spirit.
2. Now I turn to the rest of your letter: I was delighted with the speech, and I should wish that, forgetting that bitter quarrel of yours, you make peace. What do you think, my master? I shall be angry, unless you accept from me either a gift or a new magistracy, and accept it through me [...] it was greater [...] if [...] he had defended the laws [...] you complain that what is not true has been put forward [...] more faithfully than certain things, beyond which I myself think of, or long for, or dream of nothing else whatever. I will send on the eloquent proceedings and writings of my brother, together with other unpublished pieces of my brother's that have been acquired.
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To my master. You are aware I am sure, my dearest master, even if I keep silence, how keenly I feel every trouble of yours however slight. But, indeed, since you have lost simultaneously both a wife beloved through so many years, and a most sweet grandson, . . . . and you have known greater woes than I can dare to console my master for with well-turned words, but it is a father's part to pour forth a heart full of love and affection . . . . . . . . . . . . Now I will turn to the rest of your letter. I was delighted . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What do you ask, my master? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . what else at all do I more learned either ask or dream of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
ad Verum Imp. 1.9 [113 Hout; 2.234 Haines]
Magistro meo.
1 Certo esse te, mi magister carissime, etiamsi reticeam, nihil dubito, quantaeque mihiacerbitati sit tua omnis vel minima tristitia. Enimvero cum et uxorem per tot annos caram et nepotem dulcissimum paene simul amiseris, maximam misericordiam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pernostique graviora mala quam, ut magistrum doctis dictis consolari audeam. Sed patris est pectus amoris pietatisque plenum effundere . . . . . . . . . . . opus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tristium tempore deliberasti morosus.
2 Nunc ad reliqua litterarum tuarum convertor: Delectatus oratione velim uti obliti amarae litis istius agatis pacem. Quid putas, mi magister? Irascar, nisi qui a me munus aut novum magistratum et per me accipies . . . . . . . . . . major erat . . . . . . . . . . . . . si ple . . . . . . . . . . . sas defendisset leges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . conqueris non vera subdi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . disse certis fidelius, quo nihil aliud ego cogito quicquam aut expeto aut somnio. Diserta fratris acta et scripta cum ineditis aliis fratris adquisita transmittam
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To the Emperor Verus, 1.9
To my master.
1. I have no doubt at all, my dearest master, that even if I say nothing you are certain how great a bitterness every sorrow of yours, even the slightest, is to me. For indeed, since you have lost almost at one and the same time both a wife dear to you through so many years and a most sweet grandson, the greatest pity [...] and you have come to know woes too grievous for me to dare to console my master with learned words. But it is the part of a father's heart, full of love and devotion, to pour itself out [...] a task [...] in a time of grief you have deliberated, troubled in spirit.
2. Now I turn to the rest of your letter: I was delighted with the speech, and I should wish that, forgetting that bitter quarrel of yours, you make peace. What do you think, my master? I shall be angry, unless you accept from me either a gift or a new magistracy, and accept it through me [...] it was greater [...] if [...] he had defended the laws [...] you complain that what is not true has been put forward [...] more faithfully than certain things, beyond which I myself think of, or long for, or dream of nothing else whatever. I will send on the eloquent proceedings and writings of my brother, together with other unpublished pieces of my brother's that have been acquired.
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Latin / Greek Original
ad Verum Imp. 1.9 [113 Hout; 2.234 Haines] Magistro meo. 1 Certo esse te, mi magister carissime, etiamsi reticeam, nihil dubito, quantaeque mihiacerbitati sit tua omnis vel minima tristitia. Enimvero cum et uxorem per tot annos caram et nepotem dulcissimum paene simul amiseris, maximam misericordiam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . pernostique graviora mala quam, ut magistrum doctis dictis consolari audeam. Sed patris est pectus amoris pietatisque plenum effundere . . . . . . . . . . . opus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . tristium tempore deliberasti morosus. 2 Nunc ad reliqua litterarum tuarum convertor: Delectatus oratione velim uti obliti amarae litis istius agatis pacem. Quid putas, mi magister? Irascar, nisi qui a me munus aut novum magistratum et per me accipies . . . . . . . . . . major erat . . . . . . . . . . . . . si ple . . . . . . . . . . . sas defendisset leges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . conqueris non vera subdi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . disse certis fidelius, quo nihil aliud ego cogito quicquam aut expeto aut somnio. Diserta fratris acta et scripta cum ineditis aliis fratris adquisita transmittam [plures paginae desunt]