7S . FRO 
That men may fay, when we the fronthox gface', 
Behold the firft in v-irtue, as in face. Pope. 
FRON'TE, a town of Piedmont, in the marquifate of 
Ivrea, on the Marlon : five miles north-eaft of Lanzo, 
and eleven north of Turin. 
FRONTE AU' (John), canon regular of St. Genevieve, 
and chancellor of the univerfity of Paris, born at Angers 
in 1614. He was educated in the college of the fathers of 
the oratory at Angers, whence he was removed to the 
college of La Fleche, where he went through an exten- 
liveconrfeof philofophy. After he had finilhed his theo¬ 
logical ftudies, he was called by the ftiperior-general of 
the congregation to Paris, where he was ap4)ointed to 
teach philofophy at St. Genevieve. In 1639‘he was ap- 
pointed profefibr of divinity, which hq.taught for twelve 
years with difiinguifhed reputation. He adhered to the 
principles of Aquinas botli in his theology and in his 
philofophy. In 1648, he was appointed chancellor of 
the univerfity of Paris; and in 1654 he fucceeded to the 
priory of Benay, in the diocefe of Angers. In 1662 he 
was nominated to the priory of St. Magdalen of Montar- 
gis, where he died not many days after he had taken pof- 
felfion of his beriefice, in tlie forty-eighth year of bis age.' 
Befides Latin and Greek, he was mailer of the Hebrew, 
Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, Italian, and Spanifh, languages. 
In his works he knew how to adorn his fubject with inte. 
refting paffagesout of Greek and Latin autliors, and with 
curious hilforical notices. Among other works which he 
publifhed was i. an edition of The Philofophy of Ala- 
niandus, with a Supplement. 2. Quajlionum de Pradejti- 
natione et Gratia'Concordia ; intended to reconcile the Jan- 
fenifts and Jefuits. 3. Antithejes AugujlinietCalvini-, com¬ 
paring the pallages of St. Aiigufiine and Calvin on the 
fubjea of grace. 4. De Diebus Fejbivis, folio, 1652, being 
an ancient calendar of the Roman church, illullrated with 
a learned preface and notes, and accompanied with differ, 
tutions. After the author’s death a collection of his fe- 
le£t letters was publifhed at Liege, in 1677, lamo. in 
which, befides particular points of dottrine and difcipline, 
fome very curious queflions in ecclefiaflical antiquities are 
difcuffed. 
fRON'TED, adj. [/ronf, Lat.] Formed with a front. 
~Part fronted brigades form. Milton. 
FRONTEI'R A, a town of Portugal, in the province of 
Alentejo ; remarkable for a victory which the Portii- 
guefe, under the command of the duke of Schomberg, 
obtained over the Spaniards, in 1663 : ten miles north of 
Eflremos. 
FRONTEIT'TEN, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Stiria ; fourteen miles north-north-welt of Graz. 
FRONT nNHAUSEN, a town ot Germany, in the 
circle of Lower Bavaria : five miles fouth of Dingelfingen, 
and fourteen eaft of Landihut. 
FRON'TIER,/ 'ifrontiere, Fr.] The marches; the 
limit; the utmofi: verge of any territory; the border; 
properly that which terminates not at the fea, but fronts 
another country.—Draw all the inhabitants of thofe bor¬ 
ders away, or plant garrifons upon all thofe frontiers about 
him. Sperijer. 
1 upon my frontiers here keep refidence, 
That little which is left lb to defend. Milton. 
FRON'TIER, a^. Bordering; conterminous: 
A place there lies on Gallia’s utmofi bounds, 
Whene rifing feas infiilt the frontier grounds. Addifon. 
FRON'TIERED, adj. Guarded on thefrontier.—Now 
that is no more a border, noryronrterecf witlvenemies. Sbenf, 
FRONTIGNAC'. See Frontignan. ^ 
hRON'l IGNAC-FO'RT, a fortrefs in Canada, fitu- 
aled at tlie Itead of a fine bay or harbour, on the north- 
wefl fide of the outlet of Lake Ontario, where all forts of 
veflels may ride in fafety. It is a league from the mouth 
of the lake, and onlyalhort dillance fouth of Kingflon, 
and about joamiles frovn Qjaebcc, The winter at this place 
FRO 
is much fhorter than at Qpebec ; and the foil is fo well 
cultivated as to produce all forts of European and Indian 
corn, and fruits. Here is one of the mofl charming prof- 
peCts in the world, during fpringand fummer. The river 
St. Lawrence and the mouth of Lake Ontario, contain a 
number of beautiful and fertile iflands of dift'erent magni¬ 
tudes, well wooded ; and the bay often prefents to the 
view vefTelsat anchor, and others paflii^ to and from tlie 
lake. But the itiisfortune is, that the advantageous com. 
munication between this lake, Montreal, and (Tnebec, is 
fomewhat difficult and dangerous, on account ot the river 
being ful 1 of rocks and water-falls. This, togetiier wirli 
file ambufcades of the Iroquois Indians, induced ilie 
French to abandon and deftroy the flrong works they had 
formerly eredled here. This happened in 1689. Atlengtli 
the Britifh, under colonel Bradllreet, took it in 1739, to 
whom it was coiifirimtd at the peace in 1763. A river 
has lately been opened here by the deputy Lirveyor gene, 
ral of Canada, from its entrance into the lake at Kenty, 
near Cadaraqui, to its fource in lake 3 <. Clie ; from which 
there is an eafy and fliort portage acrofs north-wefl to the 
north-eafl angle of Lake Huron, and another that is nei¬ 
ther long nor difficult, to the fouthward, to the old fet- 
tlement of Toronto. Thisisafhort route from FortFron- 
tenac to Michilliniackinack. See Kingston. 
FRONTIGNAN', a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Herault, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diflridl of Montpellier; celebrated for its excellent wine, 
generally called Fronligniac: fourleagues foiuli-fouth-wefl 
of Montpellier, and one and a half north-eafl of Cette. 
FRONTIN'IAC, adj. [a town of France.] Denoting 
a kind of grape.—Miflrefsand woman differ no otherwife, 
than /Vonhazflc and ordinary grapes. Suckling. 
FRONTl'NUS (Sextus-Julius), an eminent Roman,, 
and the city-praetor under Vefpafian, A. D. 70. He was 
afterwards confiil, but probably onlyy^^iSar, or fupple- 
mentary, fince his name does not appear in the confular 
feries. He fucceeded Cerialis as commander in Britain, 
where he difiingiiifhed his military talents, and reduced 
the nation of the Silures. Under Nerva he was appoint¬ 
ed to the fuperintendance of the waters, and he brought 
the water of the Anio to Rome by means of a fplendid 
aquediuSl. He wrote two books on the conflrubtion of 
thefe works by tfiat emperor’s order. Frontinus is men¬ 
tioned with honour by feveral writers, particularly by the 
younger Pliny, who fucceeded him in the dignity of au¬ 
gur. When he died, he forbade the ereilion of a monu- 
ment to his memory, faying that it was a fuperfiuous ex¬ 
pence, for that his name would furvive, if by his actions 
he had merited if. Befides the work upon aquedii6ls 
above-mentioned, he wrote Military Stratagems, flill ex¬ 
tant. A tfeatife upon agriculture, under the name of 
Frontinus, was mod probably compoffid by a later writer. 
The works of Frontinus De AqUieduStibns, ?iv\A Stratagema. 
ta, were edited with the notes of Steweckius, L. Bat. 
1607, 4to. The Stratagemata are printed with the Auto- 
res de Re Militari, Rom. 1487, and have alfo been edited fe- 
parately. The befl edition is the L.Bat. 
and 1779, 8vo, 
FRON'TISPIECE, y. \_frontiJpkium, id quod in fronte 
cotfpicitiir •, frontfpice, Fr.] That part of any building or- 
other body that direftly meets the eye.— frontifpiece 
of the town houfe has pillars of a beautiful black marblCj 
Itreaked with white. Addifon, 
With frontifpiece of diamond and gold 
Erhbelliih’d, thick with fparkling orient gems 
The portal fhone. Milton. 
The print or engraving which often fronts the title of a- 
book. 
FRONTISTE'RIUM, f, [Latin, fromGr.] 
Learned feminary 1 
’Twill be the great gymnafium of the realm, 
The frontijlerium of Great Brittany, Randolph. 
FRONT'LES§» 
