• 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...
    15 KB (1,616 words) - 21:38, 10 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Justin (historian)
    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...
    5 KB (466 words) - 23:52, 7 November 2024
  • 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"...
    68 KB (9,497 words) - 09:48, 3 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Strategemata
    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...
    2 KB (209 words) - 06:38, 13 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Rome
    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...
    182 KB (18,367 words) - 16:05, 7 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Roman Empire
    The Romans constructed numerous aqueducts. De aquaeductu, a treatise by Frontinus, who served as water commissioner, reflects the administrative importance...
    250 KB (28,104 words) - 22:05, 15 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Julius Caesar
    Ennius Eutropius Fabius Pictor Sextus Pompeius Festus Rufus Festus Florus Frontinus Fronto Fulgentius Gellius Horace Hydatius Hyginus Jerome Jordanes Julius...
    141 KB (16,460 words) - 18:33, 13 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Bellifortis
    classical writers on military technology, like Vegetius' De Re Militari and Frontinus' anecdotal Strategemata, emphasising poliorcetics, or the art of siege...
    8 KB (1,044 words) - 07:40, 29 June 2024
  • 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...
    7 KB (893 words) - 23:05, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vitruvius
    Naturalis Historia (Natural History), in the heading for mosaic techniques. Frontinus refers to "Vitruvius the architect" in his late 1st-century work De aquaeductu...
    52 KB (5,832 words) - 06:44, 12 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Xylospongium
    des Internationalen Frontinus-Symposiums zur Technik – und Kulturgeschichte der antiken Thermen Aachen, 18. – 22. März 2009. Frontinus-Gesellschaft e.V....
    5 KB (502 words) - 21:48, 23 August 2024
  • 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;...
    5 KB (539 words) - 15:49, 27 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Asculum
    slightly more, plus 19 war elephants. The 1st century AD Roman senator Frontinus estimated a strength of 40,000 men for both sides. Pyrrhus had men from...
    17 KB (2,400 words) - 00:56, 11 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Third Servile War
    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;...
    55 KB (6,071 words) - 03:42, 24 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Aqua Anio Novus
    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...
    9 KB (1,114 words) - 17:50, 12 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Roman Republic
    Ennius Eutropius Fabius Pictor Sextus Pompeius Festus Rufus Festus Florus Frontinus Fronto Fulgentius Gellius Horace Hydatius Hyginus Jerome Jordanes Julius...
    166 KB (20,473 words) - 21:21, 9 February 2025
  • Balbus"). Asconius Pedianus, In Ciceronis Pro Scauro, p. 29, ed. Orelli. Frontinus, De Aquaeductu, § 102. Settipani, Continuité gentilice et continuité familiale...
    22 KB (2,824 words) - 12:43, 18 July 2024
  • Armenia. Sextus Julius Frontinus becomes governor of Britannia and makes his headquarters in Isca Augusta (Wales). Frontinus begins his conquest of Wales;...
    3 KB (291 words) - 14:09, 3 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Flying wedge
    "like a flight of cranes". As an infantry formation it is attested by Frontinus to have been used by the Romans in Pydna against the Macedonian line of...
    19 KB (2,412 words) - 02:06, 2 January 2025
  • Kanishka I, ruler of the Kushan Empire (approximate date) Sextus Julius Frontinus, Roman author (b. c. AD 40) Martial, poet and satirist Silius Italicus...
    2 KB (192 words) - 14:12, 3 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Commius
    - and that Frontinus's anecdote either refers to an escape prior to the truce, or is historically unreliable, perhaps a legend Frontinus heard while...
    12 KB (1,453 words) - 19:18, 24 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Telecommunications
    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...
    88 KB (9,208 words) - 19:24, 13 February 2025
  • maintenance involved in keeping the aqueducts flowing is well described by Frontinus, a general appointed by the emperor Nerva as water commissioner toward...
    17 KB (2,254 words) - 13:18, 17 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Erigon Valley
    confronted the Illyrian tribesmen. The battle described by Diodorus and Frontinus shows the power and excellence of both the Macedonian and Illyrian armies...
    13 KB (1,802 words) - 11:34, 25 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pamukkale
    Archaeological site of Hierapolis in Pamukkale, Turkey. The photo shows the Frontinus (or Domitian) Gate at Frontinus Street....
    12 KB (1,203 words) - 18:43, 1 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Curator Aquarum
    emperor. The first curator was Agrippa. Another notable Curator Aquarum was Frontinus, a Roman engineer. Before the Curator Aquarum Censors managed the water...
    12 KB (1,140 words) - 10:33, 30 May 2024
  • 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...
    12 KB (1,603 words) - 21:40, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Manius Curius Dentatus
    Periocha 11; Columella, book 1, preface 14; Valerius Maximus 4.3.5; Frontinus, Stratagems 1.8.4; Florus 1.10.2–3; Apuleius, Apologia 17; Cassius Dio...
    7 KB (645 words) - 13:54, 23 April 2024
  • name is: Quintus Pompeius Senecio Roscius Murena Coelius Sextus Iulius Frontinus Silius Decianus Gaius Iulius Eurycles Herculaneus Lucius Vibullius Pius...
    4 KB (472 words) - 14:35, 25 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Topography of ancient Rome
    regionary catalogues, and the newly discovered manuscripts of Tacitus and Frontinus. Although Renaissance researchers did not engage in archaeological digs...
    11 KB (1,266 words) - 16:35, 2 September 2023