Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Frons

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

FRONS. Applied to books; mostly in the plural, frontes geminae (Ov. Trist. i. 1. 11. Tibull iii. 1. 13.); the two outside surfaces or bases of a roll of papyrus, &c. when it was rolled up so as to form a volume (volumen), and which were smoothed and polished with pumice stone, and dyed black, when the roll was completed. The illustration (Frons/1.1) represents a box of books, from a Pompeian painting, in which there are eight rolls, each with one of their frontes uppermost.

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