• Siculus Flaccus (date uncertain) was an ancient Roman gromaticus (land surveyor), and writer in Latin on land surveying. His work was included in a collection...
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    public river (one with a constant flow), or to another public road. Siculus Flaccus, who lived under Trajan (98–117), calls them viae publicae regalesque...
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    Empire centred on this stone, with which the god could be identified. Siculus Flaccus, a writer on land surveying, records the ritual by which the stone...
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    Surveyors) is a Roman book on land surveying which collects works by Siculus Flaccus, Frontinus, Agennius Urbicus, Hyginus Gromaticus and other writers...
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  • Ode 9.30 Pausanias, 2.18.5 Diodorus Siculus, 4.48.4 Scholia ad Apollonius Rhodius, 4.223 & 228; Valerius Flaccus, 1.41 & 7.407 Statius, Thebaid 8.445...
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    as a system by technical writers such as Julius Frontinus, Hyginus, Siculus Flaccus, and other Gromatic writers, as they are sometimes termed. The teachers...
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    Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Classical Latin: [ˈkʷiːntʊs (h)ɔˈraːtiʊs ˈfɫakːʊs]; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), commonly known in the English-speaking...
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    detecting financial fraud, as well as managing taxes for the treasury. Siculus Flaccus, one of the Roman gromatici (i.e. land surveyor), wrote the Categories...
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  • first appearance of a Lucius Valerius Flaccus on the list of consuls. Polybius 1.20.3–7, cf. Diodorus Siculus 23.9; Frontinus, Stratagems 3.16.3; Zonaras...
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    Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1 Scholia on Apollonius, 2.946 Natalis Comes 8.13 Diodorus Siculus, 4.72.1 & 5 Pseudo-Scymnos, Circuit...
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  • Flaccus, four times consul beginning in 237 BC, and grandson of Marcus Fulvius Flaccus, consul of 264 BC. As curule aedile in 184 BC, Fulvius Flaccus...
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  • Hesiod, Theogony 404 ff; Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheca 1.2.2 Valerius Flaccus, "Argonautica" 3.224 ff "Cornelius Tacitus, The Annals, BOOK XII, chapter...
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  • Avilius Flaccus - official Quintus Fulvius Flaccus two; consul and son Lucius Valerius Flaccus four Marcus Fulvius Flaccus - consul Verrius Flaccus - freedman...
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    2012-12-17. Gaius Valerius Flaccus. Argonautica. 1.146. Hyginus. Fabulae. 45 & 173. Strabo. Geographica. 9.5.22. Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca historica....
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  • Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3, f.n. 51 Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3; Tzetzes, Chiliades 2.224 Apollodorus, 2.4.10; Diodorus Siculus, 4.29.3...
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    graves were sacred no matter where. In his capacity as a land surveyor, Siculus Flaccus found that grave markers at the edge of estates were easily mistaken...
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    Apollodorus, 1.1.7. Diodorus Siculus, 7.70.2; see also 7.65.4. Diodorus Siculus, 7.70.2–3. Diodorus Siculus, 7.65.4. Diodorus Siculus, 7.70.4. Gantz, p. 42;...
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  • Hephaestion, New History 2 in Photius, Bibliotheca 190 Valerius Flaccus, 3.95 Diodorus Siculus, 4.33.11 Conon, Narrations 23 Lycophron, Alexandra 61 Tzetzes...
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    in his hands" (p. 269) Valerius Flaccus, 265 ff. Valerius Flaccus, 553 ff. Valerius Flaccus, 517 ff. Valerius Flaccus, 725 ff. Apollodorus, 1.9.24 & Ovid...
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    Apollonius Rhodius, 233 & 251ff.; Hyginus, Fabulae 3, 13 & 14; Valerius Flaccus, 1.297 Apollodorus, 1.9.16; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 175 & 872 Scholia ad...
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    Clark, Edinburgh. 1867. Online version at theoi.com Diodorus Siculus, Diodorus Siculus: The Library of History. Translated by Charles Henry Oldfather...
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    305 Ovid, Metamorphoses 12.499 ff.; Valerius Flaccus, 1.146 Apollodorus, 2.5.4, 2.7.6; Diodorus Siculus, 4.36.3; Hyginus, Fabulae 31; Sophocles, Trachiniae...
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    Apollodorus, 2.6 Tzetzes on Lycophron, 511 Callimachus, Aitia fr. 66; Valerius Flaccus, 4.374 ff. Antoninus Liberalis, 22 Scholia on Homer's Iliad 16. 718 with...
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    cautious, but he cruel Parcae would not suffer him to learn." Valerius Flaccus gives attention to the wrecked chariot itself, and how Tethys, who is Phaethon's...
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  • Aeneus [i.e. Cyzicus] clinging to their dear departing comrades." Valerius Flaccus, 3.1 ff.; Parthenius, 28.1 from the Apollodorus of Euphorion and the latter...
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    (Roman tragedy C1st AD) Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 3. 224 (trans. Mozley) (Roman epic poetry C1st AD) Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 7. 623 ff Statius...
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  • authority & 11.5; Apollodorus, 3.12.3; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 18 Diodorus Siculus, 5.62; Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 570 Apollodorus, The Library with an English...
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    Apollonius Rhodius, 1.45 Diodorus Siculus, 4.50.2 Tzetzes, Chiliades 6.979 Tzetzes ad Lycophron, 872 Diodorus Siculus, 4.50.2; Apollodorus, 1.9.27 Smith...
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  • Historia; Plutarch Questiones Romanae, Vitae parallelae (Romulus, Numa); Siculus Flaccus; Solinus; Suda; Tacit Valerius Maximus; Varro; Velleius Paterculus;...
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    Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.242–303. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.249–259. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 2.265–280. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica...
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