Fronto to My Lord M. Aurelius Antoninus
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Trustees of Boston University Fronto to My Lord M. Aurelius Antoninus Author(s): Philip Murray Source: Arion, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Summer, 1963), p. 28 Published by: Trustees of Boston University Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20162832 . Accessed: 11/06/2014 10:46 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Trustees of Boston University is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Arion. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 195.78.108.96 on Wed, 11 Jun 2014 10:46:35 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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Trustees of Boston University
Fronto to My Lord M. Aurelius AntoninusAuthor(s): Philip MurraySource: Arion, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Summer, 1963), p. 28Published by: Trustees of Boston UniversityStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20162832 .
Accessed: 11/06/2014 10:46
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FRONTO TO MY LORD M. AURELIUS ANTONINUS1
Philip Murray
. . . nepotem in Germania amisi, miserum me! Decimanum
nostrum amisi. Ferreus si essem, plura scrihere non possem isto in temp?re.
Fronto, de nepote amisso, 165 A.D.
My lord, have you some words, Some maxim of philosophy To comfort your old rhetorician And his grief-stricken family?
My daughter's only son,
My one
grandson, age three, Dear
darUng Decimanus, To bed forever, so
early.
Our sweet proconsul of grapes,
Our tender auspex of doves
And sparrows and chickens, Little boy Love;
Who strewed the courtyard With tablets and paper scraps, Those things I wish him to want, No harm in that;
Who cried "Give me"
Boldly to the sun's face; Who drowned his doll in the fountain And frowned at the disgrace;
Who followed me everywhere PrattUng my name;
Who could not be kept indoors, And wept to play in the rain;
He was as blond, as blue as?
But similes fail me. What can Reason avail me
For such a loss, my lord?
The child Decimanus is dead. Can an old man endure?
If I were of iron, I could write no more.
1 Reprinted from The Hudson Review (Vol. xv, no. 4, Winter,
1962-63 ) by kind permission of the editor.
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