Publius Calvisius Ruso Julius Frontinus (consul c. 84), it is likely Frontinus had a sister, who was the other's mother. Frontinus had at least one daughter...
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29. Sextus Julius Frontinus. The Aqueducts of Rome. pp. 1, 6–20. The Aqua Alsietina was also known as "Aqua Augusta"; Frontinus distinguishes its "unwholesome"...
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Strategemata (redirect from Stratagems (Frontinus))
Strategemata, or Stratagems, is a Latin work by the Roman author Frontinus (c. 40 – 103 AD). It is a collection of examples of military stratagems from...
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Justin (Latin: Marcus Junianus Justinus Frontinus; fl. c. 2nd century AD) was a Latin writer and historian who lived under the Roman Empire. Almost nothing...
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works to have survived. Frontinus had been appointed Water Commissioner by the emperor Nerva in AD 96. With the recovery of Frontinus' manuscript from the...
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Appian, Civil Wars, 1:116. Frontinus, Stratagems, Book I, 5:20–22 and Book VII:6. Plutarch, Crassus, 9:1–3; Frontinus, Stratagems, Book I, 5:20–22;...
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Hierapolis (section Frontinus Gate)
towers consists of three arches and was built by the proconsul Julius Frontinus (84–86). The town was repeatedly rebuilt following major earthquakes and...
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Buzara frontinus is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in the coastal areas of southern Queensland and New South Wales. The wingspan is about...
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of Rome. During the Roman Empire, in 98 AD, according to Sextus Julius Frontinus, the Roman consul who was named curator aquarum or guardian of the water...
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Ennius Eutropius Fabius Pictor Sextus Pompeius Festus Rufus Festus Florus Frontinus Fronto Fulgentius Gellius Horace Hydatius Hyginus Jerome Jordanes Julius...
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The Romans constructed numerous aqueducts. De aquaeductu, a treatise by Frontinus, who served as water commissioner, reflects the administrative importance...
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Naturalis Historia (Natural History), in the heading for mosaic techniques. Frontinus refers to "Vitruvius the architect" in his late 1st-century work De aquaeductu...
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Papers of the British School at Rome. 46: 52–72. ISSN 0068-2462. Frontinus 1.15 Frontinus, de Aqueductibus 1.15 The length of 62 miles (100 km) given to...
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account. Appian, Civil Wars, 1:116. Frontinus, Stratagems, Book I, 5:20–22 and Book VII:6. Plutarch, Crassus, 9:1–3; Frontinus, Stratagems, Book I, 5:20–22;...
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second aqueduct, funded by the loot from the Battle of Beneventum. It is Frontinus' book on aqueducts which gives him the cognomen Cursor, but he is more...
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treatises by Flavius Vegetius Renatus (De re militari), Sextus Julius Frontinus, Aelianus and Pseudo-Modestus (De vocabulis rei militaris), as well as...
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origin of the name, and the actual value of a quinaria. According to Frontinus: ...Those who refer (the quinaria) to Vitruvius and the plumbers, declare...
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maintenance involved in keeping the aqueducts flowing is well described by Frontinus, a general appointed by the emperor Nerva as water commissioner toward...
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in his province. John Leach, Pompey the Great, p. 44. Frontinus, Stratagems, 2.5.31. Frontinus, Stratagems, 2.5.31; Plutarch, Life of Pompey, 18.3; Plutarch...
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des Internationalen Frontinus-Symposiums zur Technik – und Kulturgeschichte der antiken Thermen Aachen, 18. – 22. März 2009. Frontinus-Gesellschaft e.V....
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Reges Frontinus, De aquaeductu, Book I, 7 Pliny the Elder, Natural History, Book XXXVI, XXIV, [17] Frontinus, De aquaeductu, Book I, 18 Frontinus - De...
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Armenia. Sextus Julius Frontinus becomes governor of Britannia and makes his headquarters in Isca Augusta (Wales). Frontinus begins his conquest of Wales;...
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Calvisius Ruso Julius Frontinus, the ancestor of Marcus Aurelius. Syme also proposed that the younger brother, Ruso Julius Frontinus, was the son of a sister...
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Balbus"). Asconius Pedianus, In Ciceronis Pro Scauro, p. 29, ed. Orelli. Frontinus, De Aquaeductu, § 102. Settipani, Continuité gentilice et continuité familiale...
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p. 66 Frontinus, Strategems, Book 1, 5.8 South of Toledo. C. Konrad, Plutarchs Sertorius: A historical commentary (Chapel Hill, 1994). Frontinus, Strategems...
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according to his own statement, were Cato the Elder, Cornelius Celsus, Frontinus, Paternus and the imperial constitutions of Augustus, Trajan, and Hadrian...
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Ennius Eutropius Fabius Pictor Sextus Pompeius Festus Rufus Festus Florus Frontinus Fronto Fulgentius Gellius Horace Hydatius Hyginus Jerome Jordanes Julius...
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- and that Frontinus's anecdote either refers to an escape prior to the truce, or is historically unreliable, perhaps a legend Frontinus heard while...
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Frontinus and attempted to reconstruct his second book on land surveying on that basis. Thulin also sees the work as deriving from that of Frontinus....
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classical writers on military technology, like Vegetius' De Re Militari and Frontinus' anecdotal Strategemata, emphasising poliorcetics, or the art of siege...
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