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'I have a serious grievance against you, my dear master, yet

indeed my grief is more than my grievance, because after so long

a time I neither embraced you nor spoke to you, though you

visited the palace, and the moment after I had left the prince my

brother. I reproached my brother severely for not recalling me;

nor durst he deny the fault.' Fronto again writes on one

occasion: 'I have seen your daughter. It was like seeing you and

Faustina in infancy, so much that is charming her face has taken

from each of yours.' Or again, at a later date:[41] I have seen

your chicks, most delightful sight that ever I saw in my life, so

like you that nothing is more like than the likeness.... By the

mercy of Heaven they have a healthy colour and strong lungs. One

held a piece of white bread, like a little prince, the other a

common piece, like a true philosophers son.'

[41] Ad Ant. Imp i., 3.