frons

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Hence the end of the roll, or volume, was called frons, a term of frequent recurrence in Ovid and Martial, and not always rightly understood.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

Sed frons l�ta parum et dejecto lumina vultu.

From The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome by Baggs, Charles Michael

Hence, also, when we meet with the expression, gemina frons, we must understand that the volume had a ticket at each end.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

II Pascuntur armenta commodissime in nemoribus, ubi virgulta et frons multa.

From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)

Linschoten repeats the like, and one of his plates is entitled Habitus Abissinorum quibus loco Baptismatis frons inuritur.

From The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Yule, Henry