Fronto, Catius
a contemporary of Vespasian, who defended Bassus, and afterwards Varenus. He seems to have been an orator of some eminence at the time. (Plin. Ep. 4.9, 6.13.) Niebuhr, in his life of Corn. Fronto (p. 37) is inclined to believe that he is the same as the Fronto spoken of by Juvenal, and who owned the house of the poet Horace.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.