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Before the present century nothing was known of the works of

Fronto, except a grammatical treatise; but in 1815 Cardinal Mai

published a number of letters and some short essays of Fronto,

which he had discovered in a palimpsest at Milan. Other parts of

the same MS. he found later in the Vatican, the whole being

collected

[1] References are made to the edition of Naber, Leipzig

(Trubner), 1867.

[2] Ad Verum imp. Aur. Caes., ii, 7. and edited in the year 1823.