Marcus Cornelius Fronto: Correspondence, II (Loeb Classical Library No. 113)

396 Pages·1920·21.04 MB·English

by  Fronto

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The literary remains of the rhetorician
MARCUS CORNELIUS PRONTO
(c. A.D. 100176) first came to light in
1815, when Cardinal Mai, then prefect of
the Ambrosian Library in Milan, dis-
covered that beneath an account of the
Acts ofthe first Council ofChalcedon in
451 had originally been written a copy of
the correspondence between Pronto and
members of the imperial family, includ-
ing no less than three who were to wear
the purple. The letters possess an extra-
ordinary fascination as giving an authen-
tic record ofthe relationship between the
foremost teacher ofhis time and his illus-
trious pupil, Marcus Aurelius, his chief
correspondent. Apart from small-talk
(but even the trivialities of the great are
replete with interest) the principal subject
is Latin prose style. Pronto practises to
excess the cultivation of trendy manner-
isms, but sees clearly enough the sterility
ofa slavish imitation ofclassical models.
Manyproblemsarisingfromthisunique
work still await resolution: the original
publication was deplorable, Hauler's life-
long studies never led to an edition, and
van den Hout's textiswithouta commen-
tary. Even after almost seventy years the
Loeb volumes remain the most helpful
avenuetoan appreciationoftheseremark-
able documents.
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MARCUS CORNELIUS
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THE CORRESPONDENCE OF
MARCUS CORNELIUS
FRONTO
WITH MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS,
LUCIUS VERUS, ANTONINUS PIUS, AND
VARIOUS FRIENDS
EDITED AND FOR THE FIRST TIME TRANSLATED
INTO ENGLISH BY
C. R. HAINES, M.A., F.S.A.
IN TWO VOLUMES
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MCMLXXXVIII
American ISBN 0-674-99125-7
British ISBN 434 99113 9
Firstprinted1920
Revisedandreprinted1929
Reprinted1957, 1963, 1988
Printedin GreatBritainby
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