Fronto

And I have subscribed in the presence of the brothers who were with me — our own Fronto, and the chorepiscopus Severus, and certain other clergy.

And as for the affairs of the Nicopolitans, who could lament them as they deserve—when the wretched Fronto, who formerly pretended, forsooth, to be an advocate for the truth, in the end shamefully betrayed both the faith and himself, and received as the wages of his treachery a name of dishonour?

For the report had reached the whole surrounding region, proclaiming the shame of the man who has fallen among you, who, out of desire for empty glory, gathered to himself the most disgraceful dishonour, and was found, through his self-love, to have fallen away from the rewards that come from the faith;

to mark what envy, duplicity, and hypocrisy go hand in hand with absolute power, and how those among us who are called patricians are somehow rather wanting in natural affection.