Fronto

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Fronto, ōnis, m.,

I a proper name. So esp.: M. Cornelius Fronto, a famous Roman orator from Cirta , in Numidia , who lived about A. D. 90-168. Small portions of his writings have been discovered in palimpsests by Angelo Mai. —

II Deriv. Frontōnĭānus , a, um, adj., of Fronto , Frontonian : decreta, Dig. 29, 2, 99.—Subst.: Frontōnĭāni , ōrum, m., pupils of Fronto , Frontonians , Sid. Ep. 1, 1.

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

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