Letter 900.1

Marcus AureliusMarcus Cornelius Fronto|c. 165 AD|Marcus Cornelius Fronto|From Rome (career hub)|To Rome (career hub)|Human translated

To my master, greeting. I have just heard of your misfortune. Suffering anguish as I do when a single joint of yours aches, my master, what pain do you think I feel when it is your heart that aches? Under the shock of the news I could think of nothing else than to ask you to keep safe for me the sweetest of masters, in whom I find a greater solace for this life than you can find for your sorrow from any source. I have not written with my own hand because after my bath in the evening even my hand was shaky. Farewell, my most delightful of masters.

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  1. 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import

    Initial corpus import from Haines public-domain edition.

    Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Correspondence_of_Marcus_Cornelius_Fronto/Volume_2/The_Correspondence#De_Nepote_Amiss_1

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