I shall have the whole day free. If you have ever loved me at all, love me to-day, and send me a rich1 subject, I ask and request and beseech and entreat and implore. For in that law-court subject I found nothing but exclamations.2 Farewell, best of masters. My Lady greets you. I want something where there ought to be shouts of approval. Humour me and pick out a "shouting" subject.
Marcus Aurelius, Letters to Fronto, Letter Ad M. Caes. v. 28, translated by C. R. Haines (1919–1920). The Stoic Library.