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)

The shadow then thrown across— "Sed frons læta parum"— is well given, with a variation, by— "But gloomy were his eyes."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

Sed frons l�ta parum et dejecto lumina vultu.

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

Effingit senem stantem: ossa, musculi, nervi, venae, rugae etiam ut spirantis apparent: rari et cedentes capilli, lata frons, contracta facies, exile collum.

From Helps to Latin Translation at Sight by Luce, Edmund

Ah, neget illa, negent illi: nam quem aethera mallent Isti oculi? aut frons haec quae magis astra velit?

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard