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    Gromatici (from Latin groma or gruma, a surveyor's pole) or agrimensores was the name for land surveyors amongst the ancient Romans. The "gromatic writers"...
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  • Diognetus Philonides of Chersonissos Ancient Greek units of measurement Gromatici Surveyor's wheel Tzifopoulos, Yannis (2013). "Bematists". In Bagnall,...
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    as managing taxes for the treasury. Siculus Flaccus, one of the Roman gromatici (i.e. land surveyor), wrote the Categories of Fields, which aided Roman...
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    Agennius Urbicus, Hyginus Gromaticus and other writers, known as the Gromatici or Agrimensores ("land surveyors"). The work is preserved in various manuscripts...
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  • India, where it stimulated the development of geometry and mathematics. Gromatici Surveying Trigonometry Robillard, Walter G.; Wilson, Donald A.; Brown...
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  •  71. Editions: Friedrich Blume, Karl Lachmann, Adolf Friedrich Rudorff: Gromatici veteres. Die Schriften der römischen Feldmesser. Band 1, Georg Reimer...
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    tax register of conquered lands (300 AD). Roman surveyors were known as Gromatici. In medieval Europe, beating the bounds maintained the boundaries of a...
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    and a device called a groma, which helped them obtain right angles. The gromatici, the Roman equivalent of rod men, placed rods and put down a line called...
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  • of the Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum reads in part exp[licit] Kygini gromatici constitutio feliciter ("The establishment of Kyginus the Surveyor explains...
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    of the Roman government devoted to transportation, employed full-time gromatici (surveyors). The surveyors' job was to gather topographical information...
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  • (viae privatae) in Roman Italy. Roman roads Campbell, John Brian (2003). "gromatici". In Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth (ed.). The Oxford Classical...
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  • Barbarian Princess and The Emperor's Games. Cloaca Maxima Dolaucothi Gromatici List of aqueducts in the city of Rome List of aqueducts in the Roman Empire...
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  • conditionibus et constitutionibus limitum. Three of the texts of the gromatici’s corpus were published previously by Johannes Sichardus in Basel in 1528...
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  • had to surrender to Quintus Labienus. He is also mentioned as the first Gromatici. Ronald Syme: Who was Decidius Saxa? In: Journal of Roman studies 27 (1937)...
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  • Lange, Hygini Gromatici, Liber De Munitionibus Castrorum (Göttingen 1848). Latin text and commentary in Latin. W. Gemoll, Hygini Gromatici, Liber De Munitionibus...
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  • who used graduated measuring rods called decempedae ("10-footers") and gromatici who used a groma, a sighting device consisting of a vertical staff with...
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    an understanding of Silvanus's tripartite nature as described in the Gromatici Veteres and by St. Augustine. Peter F. Dorcey, The Cult of Silvanus: A...
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  • generally referred to as groma, from the name of the instrument used by the gromatici (surveyors).[citation needed] In such cases, the grid was traced by extending...
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    1088/1757-899X/364/1/012010 Southern Polytechnic State University ROMAN GROMATICI PRACTICES, http://www.surveyhistory.org/southern_polytechnic_state_university1...
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  • Tariotes. A passage in the Libri Coloniarum ("Book of Colonies") of the Gromatici Veteres, probably dating back to the 5th century AD, is also considered...
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  • mentioned by Ptolemy, and in the Libri Coloniarum ("Book of Colonies") of the Gromatici Veteres (c. 5th century AD) along with the Tariotes. The Sardiates are...
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  • 55. Friedrich Blume, Karl Lachmann, Adolf August Friedrich Rudorff, Gromatici veteres. Die Schriften der römischen Feldmesser. 2 Volumes, Berlin 1848–1852...
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    research that had been done on the work of Roman land surveyors (known as gromatici) elsewhere in the Roman Empire. As well as aligning roads, Roman land...
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