Frontinus
by
Frontinus
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries
ISBN-10
0521101182
ISBN-13
9780521101189
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Feb 12th, 2009
Print length
448 Pages
Weight
576 grams
Dimensions
13.90 x 21.60 x 2.90 cms
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R. H. Rodgers provides the first full commentary since the early eighteenth century.
In 97 CE Julius Frontinus was appointed by the Emperor Nerva to the post of water commissioner for the city of Rome. In the De Aquaductu Urbis Romae he sets forth his duties, responsibilities and accomplishments during his first year in office. He sketches the history of the aqueducts, furnishes a wealth of technical data and quotes verbatim from legal documents. This edition is the first since 1922 to be based on the single authoritative witness discovered at Monte Cassino in 1429 and is also the first to take into account the idiosyncrasies of its twelfth-century scribe, Peter the Deacon, a man notorious for literary affectations of his own. R. H. Rodgers provides the first full commentary since the early eighteenth century, dividing his attention between text and language on the one hand and content and interpretation on the other.
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