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Marcus Cornelius Fronto

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Born: January 02 0100

Fronto was born a Roman citizen in about AD 100 in the Numidian capital Cirta. Educated at Rome,he soon gained such renown as an advocate and orator as to be reckoned inferior only to Cicero. He amassed a large fortune, erected magnificent buildings and purchased the famous gardens of Maecenas. Antoninus Pius, hearing of his fame, appointed him tutor to his adopted sons Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus.

In 142 he was consul for two months , but declined the proconsulship of Asia on the grounds of ill-health.
His latter years were embittered by the loss of all his children except one daughter.
His talents as an orator and rhetorician were greatly admired by his contemporaries, a number of whom were later regarded as forming a school called after him Frontoniani; his object in his teaching was to inculcate the exact use of the Latin language in place of the artificialities of such 1st-century authors as Seneca the Younger, and encourage the use of "unlooked-for and unexpected words", to be found by diligent reading of pre-Ciceronian authors.
He found fault with Cicero for inattention to that refinement, though admiring his letters without reserve.

He may well have died in the late 160s, as a result of the Antonine Plague that followed the Parthian War, though conclusive proof is lacking.

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Marcus Cornelius Fronto

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Books from Marcus Cornelius Fronto

Marcus Aurelius in Love

Correspondence, vol I

The Meditations: And a Selection from the Letters of Marcus and Fronto

Epistulae

Correspondence, volume II

Eloge de la négligence

Opere (Classici della religione)

M. Cornelii Frontonis Opera Inedita, Vol. 2: Cum Epistulis Item Ineditis Antonini Pii, M. Aurelii, L. Veri Et Appiani (Classic Reprint)

Selections From the Works of Fronto: Lately Discovered by Monsignore Mai, Librarian of the Vatican (Classic Reprint)

Selections From The Works Of Fronto: Lately Discovered By Monsignore Mai, Librarian Of The Vatican (1824)

M. Cornelii Frontonis Reliquiae

The Correspondence of Marcus Cornelius Fronto with Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Lucius Verus, Antoninus Pius, and Various Friends;