FRO 
utmoft facility, tranflate his native language into the Latin 
an At the college of La Fleche he went through 
ap- 
Sointed tet of ony which h 
putation for 12 years. In 1648 he was appointed chan- 
cellor.of the ne of Paris, and obtained other seeps 
church preferments. e once incurred the difpleafure 
the court on fufpicion of being a defender of, and at ttached 
to the ee ut his fubfequent condué, and his readi- 
nefs to fign the required tefi, raifed him again into favour. 
He died in 1662, not many day s after he was maueeee into 
the priory,of S:. Magdalen of Montargis. He was author 
of many qo works, and a ae of ie eee 
was publi after his cad vas an a 
diligent fcholar befides the a an d “Creck languages, 
e was maiter of mo e modern, and all the oriental 
with the moft confiderable men of the 
honoured him with their friendfhip. In his w 
how to adorn his profane reading by the ecclefiaftical, and 
always enlivened the fubject with “fome paflages of the 
Some curious hiftwrical notes and obferva- 
ingdom, and lina 
long r 
eri. 
IRA, | in Eas, a town of es in 
the province of Alentejo ; al ee N. of Eftr 
NTEITT 
: EN, a town of aa in aa duchy 
of Stiria ; 14 miles N. N. of Gra 
FRONTENHAUSEN, : a town of ‘Bavaria ; 3 14 miles 
. of Lan 
dfhut 
PRONTEVAUX, Order of. See FONTEVRAUD. 
FRONTIER, _the border, confine, or extreme of a 
y> ontier 
Province, &e. "ines. were anciently 
e word i is derived from the French frontiere, and that 
of the Latin frontaria; as being a kind of front oppofed to 
the enemy. Skinner derives frontier from front ; inafmuch 
as the froritier is the exterior, and moft advanced part of a 
flate ; as the front is that of 7 : aman. 
ig ara gt in Geog: own of France, in 
the department of the He aa 4 chief place of a cane 
ton inthe diftriG of Montpelier 12 miles S.W. of Mont- 
ellicr. This little town is rua ted on lake Maguellone, 
called alfo lake Thau, and is famous for its wine, generall 
called Frontigniac. ‘The e place contains 1,420, and the canton 
3,032 inha bitants, on a territory of 205 kiliometres, i in five 
communes. 
- FRONTIGNIAC Wirz, is fo called from a town 
be eet in France, mentioned in the preceding hele 
arkable for producing it. 
FRONTINAC, in Geography, a Pea | of Upper Ca- 
nada, ‘bounded on the E. by the county of Leeds, on the 
5. by lake Ontario, on the W. : re townthip of Ern 
running N. 24° W. until it interfects the Ottawa or Grand 
a 
ie ig ary of the county of 
Fron c, Fort, a fortrefs in Canada, at ‘the head 0 
a fine ‘eae r harbour, on the N.W. fide of the outlet of 
ae Ona. where veffels of all forts may ride in fafety. 
eee rom the mouth of the lake, and at a fhort dif- 
tage Kingfton, and about 300 miles from Quebec. 
The foil is fo well cultivated about this jie as to produce 
See 
’ nent Roman, and city preetor 
F RO 
Ox- 
ARIO 
FRONTINUS, Sextus-JuLius, in Biography, an emi- 
A. 
10. e was after- 
wards a fupplementary conful, and diftinguifhed himfelf by 
his military talents asa commander in 3ritain. He is no- 
other writers for the bene- 
Un de er the 
e was appointed to the fuperintendance of 
the waters, a in this capacity he brought hs water of the 
all forts of European and Indian corn and fruits. 
. 
Anio to Rome by means of a fplendid aque e wrote 
two books on the conftruétion of thefe w on by the empe- 
ror’s expr pels ol or der. , ata- 
ft edition of his 
ae is that ae at tae ns I 731 and 1779. A work on 
agriculture, which has bee | to him, was probably com- 
pofed by a later writer. n Frontinus died he forbade 
the erection of a ee his memory, faying that it 
was a fuperfluous expence is name would live if he 
had done any thing to merit ae honou en. 
FRONTIS, Os, in Anatomy, one of the bones of the 
head. See Cranium. 
FRONTISPIECE, in Archited@ure, the portrait or prin- 
cipal face of a fine building. 
The word is formed of the Latin frenti/picium, q. d. frontis 
hominis infpecio 
The rates of the Louvre is the fineft piece of 
archite€ture in France. 
ence, alfo, a figure, we fay, the frontifpiece of a 
book, meaning an een with an engraven, title on the 
firft pa 
PRONTLET. See Front. 
FRONTLET im, in Cis aces of a plank three 
inches thick, es long, and feven or eight inches high, 
ri a round ca und TI to fit the outfide of the gu Ny 
and having a all flit to fee the object through it. It is 
placed upon the vent field of the gun, when it is pointed ina 
attery. 
FRONTON, in oo ey a French word ufed to ex- 
prefs an ornament ov en ediment. See PepIMENT. 
FRonTOoN, in ie 5 
partment of the Upper 
i og. 
n of 7 
sommes and chief place of a 
carton in the diftri& of Tosloute 15 miles N. of fiaulod 
e place contains 2,149, e canton 11,708 
" inhabitants, on a territory of aa kiliometres, in 20 
RDE, a town of Norway, in on diocele 
of Drontheim ; 60 miles S.S.E. of Dronthei 
FROO OKABOO, a town of Africa, in Bambarra. 
lat. 12° 45!. on eS: 
FROS ASCO, a town of cn in the department of 
the Po; 13 miles S.W. of Tur 
R HGRUN, a town ‘of Germany, in the pace 
pality of Culmbach ; 5 miles S.E. of Lichtenber 
FROSCHIUS, Joun, in Biography, a doctor in dee 
gy, anda prior of the order of Carmelites, at Augfburg ; 
publifhed in 1535 a treatife, entitled “ Rerum Muficarum 
po aaa rarum ac infigne, totius ejus negotii rationem mi- 
ra: induftria et revitate compleétens, jam recens Publicatum, 
Joan Frofehio autore.”’ Argentorati, 1 
This work is divided into nineteen chapters, of itn the 
firft fourteen are chiefly employed in divifions of the feale 
and theory 0 nga according to the doétrines of the an- 
cients. Cha explains the notes in ufe during the early 
part of the eat century, as placed-on lines and fpaces:; 
the 
N. 
