Letter 101.1

Marcus Cornelius FrontoMarcus Aurelius|c. 143 AD|Marcus Cornelius Fronto|From Rome (career hub)|To Rome (career hub)|AI-assisted

Fronto to his own Caesar [Marcus Aurelius, then heir to the throne and Fronto's pupil in rhetoric].

[...] And so I will send you this book copied out, as best I can. Farewell, Caesar, and laugh, and take joy in your whole life, and delight in your most excellent parents and in your own outstanding talent.

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Latin / Greek Original

ad M. Caesarem 1.1 [1 Hout; 1.80 Haines]
<Caesari suo Fronto>
<...> Mittam igitur tibi quantum pote librum hunc descriptum.
Vale, Caesar, et ride et omnem vitam laetare et parentibus optimis et eximio ingenio tuo fruere.

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

    Initial corpus import from modern fronto workflow v1.

    Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Correspondence_of_Marcus_Cornelius_Fronto/Volume_1/The_Correspondence#Ad_M._Caes._i._1

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