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Sextus Octavius Fronto was a Roman senator and a military figure, who held a number of offices in the emperor's service. He was suffect consul in the nundinium of May to August 86 with Tiberius Julius Candidus Marius Celsus as his colleague.[1] Martial addressed one of his epigrams to Fronto, wherein he describes Fronto as "an ornament of military and civil life".[2]
Fronto may be descended from Octavius Fronto, a Senator of praetorian rank who was active between AD 11 and 19.[3]
Only fragments of the cursus honorum of Fronto are known. For the praetorian portion of his career, he is known to have been legatus legionis or commander of Legio I Adiutrix, while for the consular portion Fronto is known to have been governor of Lower Moesia; Werner Eck dates his tenure from the years 89 to 93.[4]
References
[edit]- ↑ Paul Gallivan, "The Fasti for A. D. 70-96", Classical Quarterly, 31 (1981), pp. 190, 216
- ↑ Epigrams, I.55
- ↑ AE 1983, 210
- ↑ Eck, "Jahres- und Provinzialfasten der senatorischen Statthalter von 69/70 bis 138/139", Chiron, 12 (1982), pp. 316-320