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SEXTUS JULIUS FRONTINUS (c. A.D. 40-103)

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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 250 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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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 He subdued the See also:Silures, and held the other native tribes in check till he was superseded by See also:Agricola (78) .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 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 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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