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Cornel i us Fronto of Cirta (probably a. 100-175 A. D.), who held under Hadrian a conspicuous position as an orator, and under Ant on in us Pius taught M. Aurelius and L. Verus. He was consul 143 A. D. We po e by him above all the greater part of his correspondence with M. Aurelius both as heir apparent and as emperor. The rhetorician appears in these letters conceited, insipid, laboured, with little genius and much want of taste and pretence, but well informed and an enthusiastic admirer of early Roman literature, which he zealously endeavours to make more generally known; at the same time his character appears honourable, upright, and independent; he never abuses his influential position, is faithful as a husband and friend, and gives fatherly advice to his pupils, a who gratitude subsequently surrounded his name with Teuffel and Schwabe , Hist. of Rom. Lit. (tr. by Warr), II. 213. Front Range (frunt ranj). The easternmost range of the Rocky Mountains in the State of Colorado. Front Royal. A place in the Shenandoah valley, Virginia, where Stonewall Jackson captured the command of Colonel J. R. Kenly, May 23, 1862.