Sextus Julius Frontinus
A.D. 35-c. 103
Roman governor of Britain water commissioner, and author of a book on the history and technical details of Rome's aqueducts. In A.D. 75. Frontinus succeed...
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Although Frontinus was a successful general and prominent political figure in the late first century A.D., his primary importance rests on his extant writings on a variety of technical subjects. Most ...
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The Roman magistrate, soldier, and engineer Sextus Julius Frontinus (ca. 35-ca. 104) is known primarily as a technical writer.Frontinus seems to have been of patrician descent, and his writings indica...
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