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with a good colour,-and read with energy." Reply: Paris, 151.6 and will be found in the "Auctores
" To my Master, —I shall never love you enough. Linguae Latinae " of Dionysius Gothofredus, 4to.
I will sleep." Genev. 1595, 1602, 1622; and in the "GramII. Epistolarum ad Antoninum Imperatorem maticae Latinae Auctores Antiqui" of Putschius,
Libri IS., addressed to M. Aurelius, now emperor, 4to. Hanov. 1605, p. 21 91.
comprising in all eighteen letters, eight from The ancient authorities with regard to Fronto
the emperor to Fronto, ten from Fronto to the have been carefully collected in the dissertations
emperor. prefixed to the editions by Mai and Niebuhr. In
III. Epistolae ad Verum. Two letters to Verus, the Roman.iedition of 1823 is given for the first
the person addressed being probably M. Aurelius, time a distinct account of the palimpsests of Milan
who, at the period of his adoption, was known as and the Vatican. [W. R.].M. Annius Verns. [M. AURELIUS.] FRONTO, of EMISA, the uncle of Longinus,
IV. Epistolarum ad Verun Imperatorem Liber, taught rhetoric at Athens, and wrote many oracomprising in all thirteen letters, six from Verus to tions, in the reign of Alexander Severus. There
Fronto, seven from Fronto to Verus. are two epigrams by him on points of grammar in
V. De Bello Parthico, a short fragment of a the Greek Anthology. (Suid, s. v.,4pdJswv ELjuhistory of this disastrous campaign, drawn up at w7vds; Brunck, A4nalect. vol. ii. p. 347; Jacobs,
the earnest request of Verus. Anthol. Graec. vol. iii. p. 56, vol. xiii. p. 938.) [L. S.]
VI. De Feriis Alsiensibus. Four epistles, two FRONTO, JU'LIUS, is mentioned as the praefrom M. Aurelius, now emperor, to Fronto; two fectus vigilum at the accession of Galba, A. D. 68,
from Fronto to M. Aurelius, containing some allu- who deprived him of this office. He was probably
-sions to certain festivities at Alsium. restored to his office by Otho, when the latter obVII. De Nepote Amisso. A short note of con- tained the supreme power, A. D. 69, for we find
dolence from M. Aurelius to Fronto on the loss of him serving as tribune in Otho's army in the cama grandson; the child of his daughter and Aufidius paign against Caecina, the general of Vitellius.
Victorinus, with a reply at some length by Fronto. His brother, Julius Gratus, was praefect of the camp
VIII. Arion. Apparently a brief rhetorical in Caecina's army, and Galba's soldiers, suspecting
exercise upon this legend. that Julius Fronto meditated treachery, put him in
IX. De Eloquentia. A fragment addressed to chains. His brother Gratus met with the same
M. Caesar. treatment from Caecina's soldiers, and for the same
X. De Orationibus, in two letters, addressed reason. (Tac. Hist. i. 20, ii. 26.)
Antonino Augusto." FRONTO, OCTA'VIUS, a contemporary of
XI. Epistolae ad Antoninum Pium, comprising the emperor Tiberius, had once been invested
in all nine letters, one from Pins to Fronto, four with the praetorship, and in A. D. 16 spoke in the
from Fronto to Pinus, one from Fronto to M. Caesar, senate against the great luxury then prevailing.
one from M. Caesar to Fronto; together with two (Tac. Ann. ii. 33.) [L. S.]
of which the addresses are doubtful. FRONTO, PAPI'RIUS, a jurist, who proXII. Epistolarum ad Amicos Libri HI., com- bably lived about the time of Antoninus Pius, or
prising in all thirty-seven letters, the whole written rather earlier, for he is cited by Marcianus (who
by Fronto, with the exception of one from Appian lived under Antoninus and several succeeding
the historian, which, as well as the reply of Fronto, emperors), as if he were an elder contemporary:
is in Greek. "Peculium nascitur, crescit, decrescit, moritur, et
X III Princ{pia Historiae. A mutilated frag- ideo eleganter Papirius Fronto dicebat, peculium
ment. simile esse homini." (Dig. 15. tit. 1. s. 40. pr.)
XIV. LaudesTumiet Pulveris, and XV. Laudes He published Responsa (Dig. 14. tit. 2. s. 4. ~ 2.
Negligentiae. Two dull scraps of paradoxical plea- fin.); and a third book of this work is cited by
santry, on the former of which at least the author Callistratus. (Dig. 50. tit. 16. s. 220. ~ 1.) In
seems to have prided himself (De Feriis Als. 3.) Dig. 30. s. 114. ~ 7, an opinion in which Fronto
XVI. Fragmenta,. collected from various agrees with Scaevola is approved of by Marcianus.
sources. It is not likely that the Decreta Frontiana upon
XVII. De Dierentiis Vocabulorum. which Aristo wrote, or on which Aristo was cited
Allusions are contained in the above and in the (Dig. 29. tit. 2. s. ult.), had any connection with
Latin grammarians to several works by Fronto, of the jurist Fronto; nor are there sufficient grounds
which no trace remains. A catalogue of these, as for the identification of the jurist, or the establishwell as of the works erroneously ascribed to this ment of his relationship, with any of the Frontones
Fronto, will be found in the edition of Niebuhr who are known to have lived about the age of the
noticed below. Antonines. (Maiansius, ad XXX. letornnm Firag.
The Editio Princeps of the newly found remains Con. vol. ii. p. 256-263.) [J. T. G.]
was printed at Milan in two volumes, 8vo. 1815; FRONTO, VI'BIUS, served as commander of
was reprinted verbatim at Frankfort in 1816; and the cavalry under Pomponius Flaccus in B. c. 19,
with important improvements and commentaries and conquered king Vonones on the —rier Pyramus.
by Niebuhr, Ph. Buttmann, and Heindorf, 8vo. (Tac. Ann. ii. 68.) fL. S.]
Berol. 1816. Of the Roman edition of 1823 we FRUGI, a surname of L. Calpurnius Piso,
have spoken above; the new pieces that appeared consul in B. C. 133, and also borne by some of his
in that edition were republished (Cellis, 1832,) as descendants. [PIso.]
a supplemental volume to the Milan, Frankfort, FU'FIA GENS, plebeian, has been frequently
and Berlin editions. A translation of the latter, confounded, both in MSS. and by the earlier
by Armand Cassan, with the Latin text " en re- scholars, with a Fusia gens, which did not exist,
gard" appeared at Paris, 2 vols. 8vo., 1] 830. at least during the latter period of the republic,
The De Differentiis Vocabulorum was first and is only the ancient form of the name of the
printed in the "Grammatici Illustres XII." fol. Furia gens. The Fufii do not occur in history