Marcus Aurelius→Marcus Cornelius Fronto|c. 147 AD|Marcus Cornelius Fronto|From Rome (career hub)|To Rome (career hub)|AI-assisted
My teacher, the whole day will be free for me. If you have ever loved me, love me today and send me a rich subject. I ask, beg, plead, implore, and entreat you. In that centumviral case [a civil court case], I found nothing except set-piece exclamations. Farewell, best teacher. My Lady greets you. I wanted to write something that calls for applause. Help me, and find me a subject that can be shouted over.
145–147 A.D. To my master. I shall have the whole day free. If you have ever loved me at all, love me to-day, and send me a rich subject, I ask and request and beseech and entreat and implore. For in that law-court subject I found nothing but exclamations. Farewell, best of masters. My Lady greets you. I want something where there ought to be shouts of approval. Humour me and pick out a "shouting" subject.
ad M. Caesarem 5.43 [77 Hout; 1.208 Haines]
Magistro meo.
1 Dies mihi totus vacuus erit. Si quid umquam me amasti, hodie ama et uberem mi materiam mitte, oro et rogo καὶ ἀντιβολῶ καὶ δέομαι μαὶ ἱκετεύω. In illa enim centumviralei non inveni praeter ἐπιφωνήματα.
2 Vale, optime magister. Domina mea te salutat. Volebam aliquid, ubi clamari debeat, scribere. Fave mi et quaere clamosam ὑπόθεσιν.
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My teacher, the whole day will be free for me. If you have ever loved me, love me today and send me a rich subject. I ask, beg, plead, implore, and entreat you. In that centumviral case [a civil court case], I found nothing except set-piece exclamations. Farewell, best teacher. My Lady greets you. I wanted to write something that calls for applause. Help me, and find me a subject that can be shouted over.
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Latin / Greek Original
ad M. Caesarem 5.43 [77 Hout; 1.208 Haines] Magistro meo. 1 Dies mihi totus vacuus erit. Si quid umquam me amasti, hodie ama et uberem mi materiam mitte, oro et rogo καὶ ἀντιβολῶ καὶ δέομαι μαὶ ἱκετεύω. In illa enim centumviralei non inveni praeter ἐπιφωνήματα. 2 Vale, optime magister. Domina mea te salutat. Volebam aliquid, ubi clamari debeat, scribere. Fave mi et quaere clamosam ὑπόθεσιν.