 His latter years were embittered by the loss of all his children except one daughter.His talents as an orator and rhetorician were greatly admired by his contemporaries, a number of whom were later regarded as forming a school called after him "Frontoniani"; his object in his teaching was to inculcate the exact use of the Latin language in place of the artificialities of such 1st-century authors as Seneca the Younger, and encourage the use of "unlooked-for and unexpected words", to be found by diligent reading of pre-Ciceronian authors.He found fault with Cicero for inattention to that refinement, though admiring his letters without reserve.