Fronto in a sentence

Champlin, Fronto, 174 n. 12. He was the man Fronto recognized as having "wooed Marcus away" from oratory.

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A significant amount of the correspondence between Fronto and Marcus has survived.

At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Annullianus and Fronto (or, less frequently, year 952 Ab urbe condita ).

Birley, 211 In general, Fronto was very critical of Hadrian's pacifist policy, charging it with the decline in military standards of the Roman army of his own time.

Birley, Marcus Aurelius, 128. The early days of Marcus' reign were the happiest of Fronto's life: his pupil was beloved by the people of Rome, an excellent emperor, a fond pupil, and, perhaps most importantly, as eloquent as could be wished.

Birley, Marcus Aurelius, 73. Fronto never became Marcus' full-time teacher, and continued his career as an advocate.

Birley, Marcus Aurelius, 95; Champlin, Fronto, 120. Champlin notes that Marcus' praise of him in the Meditations is out of order (he is praised immediately after Diognetus, who had introduced Marcus to philosophy), giving him special emphasis.

Birley, Marcus Aurelius, 95. He was twenty years older than Marcus, older than Fronto.

Champlin, Fronto, 120. Marcus thanks Rusticus for teaching him "not to be led astray into enthusiasm for rhetoric, for writing on speculative themes, for discoursing on moralizing texts.

Citations to the works of Fronto are cross-referenced to C.R. Haines' Loeb edition.

Fronto concluded that "neglect of serious matters can cause greater damage, but neglect of amusements greater discontent".

Fronto exercised a complete mastery of Latin, capable of tracing expressions through the literature, producing obscure synonyms, and challenging minor improprieties in word choice.

Fronto felt that, because of Marcus' prominence and public duties, lessons were more important now than they had ever been before.

Fronto put an uncharitable interpretation of Marcus' "conversion to philosophy": "in the fashion of the young, tired of boring work", Marcus had turned to philosophy to escape the constant exercises of oratorical training.

Fronto returned to his Roman townhouse at dawn on 28 March, having left his home in Cirta as soon as news of his pupils' accession reached him.

Fronto urged Marcus to push the family's case, but Marcus demurred, saying his brother would make the final decision.

Fronto was hugely pleased.

Fronto would later explain that he had not dared to write the emperors directly.