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This, besides the same facsimile and supplements as the Milan edition, has a second facsimile page of the Vatican MS., the Caecilius signature, and a few lines of the Palatine palimpsest, containing part of Fronto's Actio Gratiarum pro Carthaginiensibus, the whole of which fragment, as far as it is decipherable, is given at the end of the volume.
4. Lettres inédites de Marc Aurèle et de Fronton retrouvées sur les palimpsestes de Milan H de, Rome: traduites avec le texte latin en regard et des notes par M. Armand Cassan: 2 vols., Paris, 1830.
This is a most disappointing edition.[1] No improvements are made in the text and the translation evades or omits all the difficulties. But the notes, with their numerous illustrative passages from the older Roman writers, are useful.
5. In 1832 the Vatican portion of Mai's Roman edition was published at Zell by Schultz. It had no new features.
6. In 1867 S. A. Naber brought out the serviceable edition, from which everyone has since derived his knowledge of Fronto. Its title was: M. Cornelii Frontonis et M. Aurelii Imperatoris Epistulae: L. Veri et T. Antonini Pii et Appiani Epistularum Reliquiae: post Angelum Maium cum, codicibus Ambrosiano et Vaticano iterum contulit G. N. du Rieu: recensuit Samuel Adrianus Naber: Lipsiae, 1867.
This was a great improvement on previous editions, the text being based on a fresh inspection of the MS. by du Rieu in 1858. But it left a great deal still to be desired. Owing to certain perverse ideas, especially about the date of Marcus's marriage, the editor went far astray in his chronology of the correspondence. The main indices, taken almost entirely from Mai, are totally inadequate.
The following translations of selected letters from the correspondence have appeared in English:—
(a) Selections from Fronto's Letters, translated into English: Rome, 1824. By J. McQuige. This contains paraphrases rather than translations of some twenty-three of the letters.
- ↑ A. Pierson, in his edition of Marcus Aurelius, 1843, has reproduced seventy of these letters, with trifling alterations.
