SEXTUS See also:JULIUS See also:FRONTINUS (c. A.D. 40-103)
, See also:Roman soldier and author
.
In 70 he was See also:city See also:praetor, and five years later was sent into See also:Britain to succeed Petilius See also:Cerealis as See also:governor of that See also:island
.
He subdued the See also:Silures, and held the other native tribes in check till he was superseded by See also:Agricola (78)
.
In 97 he was appointed superintendant of the aqueducts (See also:curator aquarum) at See also:Rome, an See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office only conferred upon persons of very high See also:standing
.
He was also a member of the See also:college of See also:augurs
.
His See also:chief See also:work is De aquis urbis Romae, in two books, containing a See also:history and description of the See also:water-See also:supply of Rome, including the See also:laws See also:relating to its use and See also:maintenance, and other matters of importance in the history of See also:architecture
.
See also:Frontinus also wrote a theoretical See also:treatise on military See also:science (De re militari) which is lost
.
His Strategematicon libri iii. is a collection of examples of military stratagems from See also:Greek and Roman history, for the use of See also:officers; a See also:fourth See also:book, the See also:plan and See also:style of which is different from the See also:rest (more stress is laid on the moral aspects of See also:war, e.g. discipline), is the work of another writer (best edition by G
.
Gundermann, 1888)
.
Extracts from a treatise on See also:land-See also:surveying ascribed to Frontinus are preserved in See also:Lachmann's See also:Gromatici veteres (1848)
.
A valuable edition of the De aquis (See also:text and See also:translation) has been published by C
.
See also:Herschel (See also:Boston, See also:Mass., 1899)
.
It contains numerous illustrations; maps of the routes of the See also:ancient aqueducts and the city of Rome in the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time of Frontinus; a photographic See also:reproduction of the only MS
.
(the See also:Monte Cassino); several explanatory chapters, and a concise bibliography, in which See also:special reference is made to P. d See also:Tissot, Etude sur la See also:condition See also:des agrimensores (1879)
.
There is a See also:complete edition of the See also:works by A
.
Dederich (1855), and an See also:English translation of the Strategematica by R
.
See also:Scott (1816)
.
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