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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 175 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HYGINUS (surnamed GROMATICUS, from gruma, a surveyor's measuring-rod)  , Latin writer on
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land-
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surveying, flourished in the reign of Trajan (A.D . 98–117) . Fragments of a
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work on legal boundaries attributed to him will be found in C . F . Lachmann, Gromatici Veteres, (1848) . A
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treatise on Castrametation (De Munitionibus Castrorum), also attributed to him, is probably of later date, about the 3rd century A.D . (ed . W . Gemoll, 1879; A. von Domaszewski, 1887) .

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