Letter 800.2

Marcus Cornelius FrontoMarcus Aurelius|c. 162 AD|Marcus Cornelius Fronto|From Rome (career hub)|To Rome (career hub)|Human translated

To my Lord Antoninus Augustus. Your Alsian holiday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . of many rustic things. That Cato also in his speech Against Lepidus mentioned a word in everyone's mouth when he spoke of statues set up to such unmanly creatures as Ocha and Dionysodorus who practised cooking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . a beginning of singing and playing . . . . . . . .

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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_Fer._Als._2

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