REMAINS OF FRONTO
them together, and, if not in fact yet in guilt, all are alike incestuous, since whatever can result by the act of individuals is potentially desired by the wish of all."[† 1]
What Marcus learnt from Fronto
About 176 A.D.
From Fronto:[1] to note the envy, the subtlety, and the dissimulation which are habitual to a tyrant; and that, as a general rule, those amongst us who rank as Patricians are somewhat wanting in natural affection.[2]
- ↑ He learnt other and even better things from him; see i. p. 17.
- ↑ See Ad Verum, ii. 7, and Just. Instit. ii. 18 fr.
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- ↑ The paragraph immediately preceding this in Min. Felix, giving an equally unveracious description of the "Thyestean banquets" attributed to the Christians, is similar in style to this extract, and probably came from the same source. Another quotation from Fronto's speech against the Christians may be possibly found in a sentence Ex isidori Originibus, xv. 2, 46 (De carcere a coercendo dicto): Ut pergraecari potius amoenis locis quam coerceri videretur. The words certainly read like Fronto's.
