Fronto of Emesa

{{Short description|3rd-century Greek rhetorician}}

Fronto of Emesa ({{langx|grc|Φρόντων|Phróntōn}}) was a famous Greek rhetorician and uncle of Cassius Longinus. Fronto taught rhetoric in Athens. He was born in Emesa.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911|p=981}} He died in Athens, aged about 60.{{Cite web |url=http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/heath/sudabits.html |title=Some grammarians, rhetoricians and sophists from the Suda |access-date=2011-02-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101222135454/http://www.leeds.ac.uk/classics/heath/sudabits.html |archive-date=2010-12-22 |url-status=live }}

He is mentioned in Suda.[https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/phi/735 Suda, phi, 735]