---
title: To Friends
title_greek: Πρὸς Φίλους
author: Fronto the Rhetorician
eul_wid: pmi-ad
eul_aid: pmi
canonical: "https://eulogikon.org/works/fronto-friends-pmi-ad"
period: Roman
dialect: Koine
domain: Oratory
format: Oration
license: "https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/"
---

# To Friends

*Πρὸς Φίλους*

**Author:** Fronto the Rhetorician

**eul_wid:** `pmi-ad` · [HTML page](https://eulogikon.org/works/fronto-friends-pmi-ad)

## Text

### 2.1

ΦΡΟΝΤΩΝ ΑΠ. ΑΠΟΛΛΩΝΙΔΗΙ .

### 2.1

Κορνηλιανὸν Σουλπίκιον φιλεῖν ἠρξάμην ἡσθε/ὶς τῷ τε τρόπῳ τἀνδρὸς καὶ τοῖς λόγοις· πέφυκεν γὰρ πρὸς λόγους ἄριστα. οὐκ ἂν δὲ ἔξαρνος εἴην τὰ πρῶτα παρ’ ἐμοὶ φέρεσθαι τὴν ἐκ παιδείας φιλίαν συσταθεῖσαν· παιδείαν δὲ ταύτην λέγω τὴν τῶν ῥητόρων· αὕτη γὰρ δοκεῖ μοι ἀνθρωπίνη τις εἶναι· τῶν φιλοσόφων θεία τις ἔστω. βοήθησον οὖν τὰ δυνατὰ Κορνη λιανῷ ἀγαθῷ ἀνδρὶ κἀμοὶ φίλῳ καὶ 〈λογίῳ〉 καὶ οὐ φιλοσόφῳ.

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