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The correspondence of Marcus Cornelius Fronto with Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Lucius Verus, Antoninus Pius, and various friends Volume 2
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1920 ...humanity. See Aul. Gell. xiii. 16; Digest, xliv. 37, etc..... extruendo adiungatur....i quondam petita. Contulisse.... infamia multata videtur. Id populo quoque....2 Ad Amiros, i. 8 (Naber, p. 179). Fronto Passieno Rufo salutem. Ambr. 320, Aemilius Pius cum studiorum elegantia tum following morum eximia probitate mihi carus est. Commendo eum tibi, f'rater. Nec ignoro nullum adhuc inter nos mutuo scriptitantium3 usum fuisse, quamquam ego te optimum virum bonarumque artium sectatorem eommunium amicorum fama cognossem, et tu fortas.se aliquid de me secundi rumoris acceperis. Sed nullum pulchrius amicitiae copulandae tempus4 reperire potui quam adulescentis optimi conciliandi tibi occasionem. Ama eum, oro te. Cum ipsius causa hoc peto, tum mea quoque. Nam me etiam magis amabis si cum Pio familiarius egeris. Novit enim Pius nostra omnia et in primis quam cupidissimus sim amicitiarum cum eiusmodi viris, qualis tu es, copulandarum. Ad Amlcos, i. 6 (Naber, p. 178). Ambr. 322, Fronto Avidio Cassio salutem. 1'"' Iimius Maximus tribunus,.qui laureatas adtulit litteras, non publico tantum munere strenue, sed 1 Seven or eight lines are lost 2 Two pages are lost before the next letter (/// xiris et Derurionibiis), Ambr. 306. 3 Heinrlorf for Cod. seribtUantcm. 4 Mai. 1 There was another letter to Arrius in the Codex, but we have only its title in the Index (Naber, p. 189; Ambr. 277 or 292) and the first two words, Valerianus Clitianus. attached to the construction of the work Fronto to Passienus Rufus,2 greeting.' A'D" Aemilius Pius3 is endeared to me both by the refinement of his tastes and the absolute integrity of his character. I commend him to you, my brother. I am not unaware that hitherto we have nbt been on the terms of correspondents, though I have know...
98 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2012
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Marcus Cornelius Fronto
94 books4 followersFronto 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 (August and September), 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.
In 142 he was consul for two months (August and September), 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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