Tiberius Catius Caesius Fronto was a Roman senator who was suffect consul in the nundinium of September to December 96 AD with Marcus Calpurnius [...]icus as his colleague.
[2] Pliny describes Fronto as "a man with the greatest expertise at extracting tears",[3] and mentions him taking part in three different trials: in the penalty phase of the case of Marius Priscus, who had been proconsul of Africa and was indicted by the people he had governed;[4] in the prosecution of Julius Bassus, who had been accused of mismanagement while proconsul of Bithynia and Pontus;[5] and in the matter of Varenus Rufus, also indicted by the people of Bithynia and Pontus for mismanagement.
Pliny may be referring to him when he writes to his friend Caninus Rufus about the death of the poet Silius Italicus: in that letter, he mentions that the oldest son was doing well and had attained the consulship.
[8] However John D. Grainger believes that as Fronto was one of two consuls at the time of the emperor Domitian's murder, he was party to the conspiracy.
"If he had not been originally involved in the plot," notes Grainger, "it would take him some time to convince him of the murder, and he would demand proof -- a sight of the body, no doubt -- which would delay matters even more.