Marcus Cornelius Fronto

Marcus Cornelius Fronto (c. AD 95-c. 166) was a Roman orator, rhetorician, advocate, and suffect consul from Cirta in Numidia. Educated and active in Rome, he became the Latin rhetoric tutor of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus under Antoninus Pius. His surviving correspondence with the Antonine court preserves a rare personal view of imperial education, literary taste, illness, friendship, and Roman elite family life in the second century.