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Fronto

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Fronto (Marcus Cornelius Fronto) (frŏn`tō), fl. 2d cent., Roman teacher and rhetorician, b. Numidia, Africa. Antoninus Pius made him consul in 143. A successful teacher and government official, Fronto was an admirer of the early Latin writers and tried unsuccessfully to bring about a renaissance. His extant correspondence (2 vol, 1919–20, Loeb Classical Library) with Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Verus, Emperor Antoninus Pius, and others, is invaluable for insights into imperial life.

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See also E. Champlin, Fronto and Antonine Rome (1980).
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Baptism and the Eucharist, rebut the contemporary charges of atheism and immorality levelled by the imperial tutor Fronto and the satirist Lucian (the 'Anti-Christ' in some Byzantine circles).
St. Justin, Martyr by Baldwin, Barry / Catholic Insight
The Church of Smyrna's Letter is the earliest account of Christian martydom, also the first evidence of honouring martyrs with special feasts and calendars, practices which along with the Eucharist were misunderstood or misrepresented in the attack on them by the consular orator Fronto, tutor of the persecuting Marcus Aurelius.
St. Polycarp by Baldwin, Barry / Catholic Insight
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