Fronto may have been referring to a different conflict at another time however.

Lucius sent Fronto few messages at the beginning of the war.

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

Fronto did, and part of the letter, written in Greek, survives.

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

Writing to Fronto, he declared that he would not speak about his holiday.

Marcus kept in close touch with Fronto, but he would ignore his scruples.

He sent Fronto a letter apologizing for his silence.

When he criticized the insincerity of conventional language, Fronto took to defend it.

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

Lucius did not want Fronto to suffer the anxieties that had kept him up day and night.

In letters to his tutor, Fronto, he describes two days spent there:

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

Fronto described the scene in terms recalling Corbulo's arrival one hundred years before.

Laelianus was, in the words of Fronto, "a serious man and an old-fashioned disciplinarian".

Fronto called on Marcus alone; neither thought to invite Lucius.

It is probable that Fronto performed this service, but no record of it survives.

Fronto is our source for the fact that Cornelianus was named Sulpicius.

"Farewell my Fronto, wherever you are, my most sweet love and delight.

His parents, Fronto and Flaccilla, appear to have died in his youth.

Fronto was highly esteemed: he was thought of as second only to Cicero, perhaps even an alternative to him.

Marcus asked Fronto to write Herodes a note of condolence.

Definite references do not occur before the 2nd century (Fronto, Ep.

Fronto was consul for 165, probably in honor of the capture of Edessa.

6-7) in which Fronto accuses the Christians of incestuous orgies.