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frontālĭa, ĭum, n. [2. frons], an ornament for the forehead, frontlet, of horses, Liv. 37, 40, 4; Plin. 37, 12, 74, § 194; Amm. 23, 4.

frontāti, ōrum, m. (sc. lapides) [2. frons, I. B. 1.], in architect., stones that go from one side of a wall to the other, and are faced both ways, binding-stones, copingstones, Vitr. 2, 8, 7.

Frontīnus, i, m., a Roman surname. So esp., Sex. Julius Frontinus, superintendent of the Roman aqueducts under Nerva, in the latter half of the first century of the Christian era; author of the works De Aquis Urbis Romae, Strategetica, De Agrorum Qualitate, and De Limitibus Agrorum, Tac. H. 4, 39; id. Agr. 17; Mart. 10, 48, 20; Plin. Ep. 4, 8, 3; 5, 1, 5; 9, 19, 1; v. Teuffel, Röm. Lit. § 322.

1. fronto, ōnis, m. amplif. [2. frons], one who has a broad forehead: ecquos naevum habere? ecquos silos, flaccos, frontones, capitones? Cic. N. D. 1, 29, 80.
Hence,

2. Fronto, ōnis, m.,

  1. I. a proper name. So esp.: M. Cornelius Fronto, a famous Roman orator from Cirta, in Numidia, who lived about A. D. 90-168. Small portions of his writings have been discovered in palimpsests by Angelo Mai.
  2. II. Deriv. Frontōnĭānus, a, um, adj., of Fronto, Frontonian: decreta, Dig. 29, 2, 99.
    Subst.: Frontōnĭāni, ōrum, m., pupils of Fronto, Frontonians, Sid. Ep. 1, 1.

frontōsus, a, um, adj. [2. frons], manybrowed, having several foreheads.

  1. I. Lit., said of Janus: frontosior, Aug. Civ. D. 1, 4 fin.
  2. II. Trop., that has a bold forehead, shameless (late Lat.), Aug. Serm. in Psa. 1, 68.