Marcus Aurelius→Marcus Cornelius Fronto|c. 149 AD|Marcus Cornelius Fronto|From Rome (career hub)|To Rome (career hub)|AI-assisted
My teacher, may you celebrate your birthday healthy now and strong hereafter, happy and in possession of every wish. This solemn prayer of mine grows fuller each year, as my strength for loving you grows firmer and the years of our sweetest friendship increase. Farewell, my teacher, most delightful to me. My mother greets you. Give Gratia my greeting, and give her a kiss in my name.
? 148–149 A.D. To my master. May you keep your birthday, my master, both sound in health now and strong in all years to come, happy, and with all your wishes granted; which yearly prayer of mine grows ever more comprehensive as my capacity for affection increases and the period of our most sweet intercourse lengthens! Farewell, my master most delightful to me. My mother greets you. Give Gratia a greeting and your little Gratia a kiss from me.
ad M. Caesarem 5.47 [78 Hout; 1.230 Haines]
Magistro meo.
1 Et nunc sanus et deinceps validus, laetus, compos omnium votorum agas diem natalem, mi magister! Quae mea precatio sollemnis semper auctior fit, quanto magis accedit et mihi firmitas ad diligendum et aetas suavissimae familiaritatis nostrae.
2 Vale, mi magister jucundissime mihi. Mater mea te salutat. Cratiae salutem dic et osculum da meo nomine.
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My teacher, may you celebrate your birthday healthy now and strong hereafter, happy and in possession of every wish. This solemn prayer of mine grows fuller each year, as my strength for loving you grows firmer and the years of our sweetest friendship increase. Farewell, my teacher, most delightful to me. My mother greets you. Give Gratia my greeting, and give her a kiss in my name.
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Latin / Greek Original
ad M. Caesarem 5.47 [78 Hout; 1.230 Haines] Magistro meo. 1 Et nunc sanus et deinceps validus, laetus, compos omnium votorum agas diem natalem, mi magister! Quae mea precatio sollemnis semper auctior fit, quanto magis accedit et mihi firmitas ad diligendum et aetas suavissimae familiaritatis nostrae. 2 Vale, mi magister jucundissime mihi. Mater mea te salutat. Cratiae salutem dic et osculum da meo nomine.