Studies in Fronto, and His Age: With an Appendix on African Latinity

Excerpt from Studies in Fronto, and His Age: With an Appendix on African Latinity, Illustrated by Selections From the Correspondence of FrontoThere is no more striking phenomenon in the history of taste than the transitoriness of great reputations. Nevertheless rarely, if ever, has the tide turned so decidedly as in the case of Marcus Cornelius F ronto, who ranked until the beginning of the last century with the greatest names in Roman literature, and who is to-day a nonentity, remembered, if he is remembered at all.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.