Roman civil engineer, author, soldier and senator (c. 40–103 AD)
Sextus Julius Frontinus
Born
c. 40 AD
Died
103 (aged 62–63) AD
Nationality
Roman
Occupation(s)
Engineer, author, soldier & politician
Notable work
De aquaeductu Strategemata
Office
Roman consul
Children
1+
Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. 40 – 103 AD) was a prominent Roman civil engineer, author, soldier and senator of the late 1st century AD. He was a successful general under Domitian, commanding forces in Roman Britain, and on the Rhine and Danube frontiers. A novus homo, he was consul three times. Frontinus ably discharged several important administrative duties for Nerva and Trajan. However, he is best known to the post-Classical world as an author of technical treatises, especially De aquaeductu, dealing with the aqueducts of Rome.
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...
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"...
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...
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...
statistics for the city's aqueducts were logged around 97 AD by Sextus Julius Frontinus, the Curator Aquarum (superintendent of the aqueducts) for Rome during...
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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des Internationalen Frontinus-Symposiums zur Technik – und Kulturgeschichte der antiken Thermen Aachen, 18. – 22. März 2009. Frontinus-Gesellschaft e.V....
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Ennius Eutropius Fabius Pictor Sextus Pompeius Festus Rufus Festus Florus Frontinus Fronto Fulgentius Gellius Horace Hydatius Hyginus Jerome Jordanes Julius...
Hippocratic Oath. Later historians told different stories. According to Frontinus, who wrote in the 1st century AD, after discovering the pipe, the Amphictionic...
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material remains today and much of information on the aqueduct comes from Frontinus who was appointed as water commissioner and recorded the technical, and...
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Persian roots and was later used by the Romans to aid their military. Frontinus claimed Julius Caesar used pigeons as messengers in his conquest of Gaul...
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...
Naturalis Historia (Natural History), in the heading for mosaic techniques. Frontinus refers to "Vitruvius the architect" in his late 1st-century work De aquaeductu...
Petillius Cerialis and Sextus Julius Frontinus, took on the task of subduing the Brigantes and Silures respectively. Frontinus extended Roman rule to all of...
The Romans constructed numerous aqueducts. De aquaeductu, a treatise by Frontinus, who served as water commissioner, reflects the administrative importance...
Roman engineering Citations Broughton 1951, p. 510. Frontinus, de aq. 2.8 Frontinus, de aq. 2.82 Frontinus, de aq. ii. 68 Sources Broughton, Thomas Robert...
engines in Ancient Rome. The writers of those times, including Vitruvius, Frontinus and Pliny the Elder, treat these engines as commonplace, so their invention...
The Loeb Classical Library (LCL; named after James Loeb; /loʊb/, German: [løːp]) is a series of books originally published by Heinemann in London, but...
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