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1 online resource (xv, 431 pages) : maps |
| Series |
Cambridge classical texts and commentaries ; 42 |
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Cambridge classical texts and commentaries ; 42.
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| Contents |
COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; TABLES; MAPS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; I SEX. JVLIVS FRONTINVS; II THE DE AQVAEDVCTV; Its date; Its content and form; Its audience and purpose; The curator aquarum and the emperor; The sources; III LANGUAGE AND STYLE; Lexicon of water quality; Formulaic presentation; Rhetorical style; IV THE TEXTUAL TRADITION; The Middle Ages; Poggio's quest; The Codex Hersfeldensis; The Codex Casinensis and Peter the Deacon of Monte Cassino; The manuscript tradition prior to C; The recentiores; V EDITIONS AND COMMENTARIES |
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Vi editorial conventions and the apparatus criticustext; sigla; ivlii frontini de aqvaedvctv vrbis romae; commentary; commentary; inscription and title; appendix a poggio's use of the de aqvaedvctv; appendix b inscriptions pertinent to frontinus' text; appendix c the impossibility of reaching an exact value for the roman quinaria measure; references; 1 selected editions of de aquaeductu (in chronological order); 2 translations; 3 abbreviations; 4 other works; literary and epigraphical citations; index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-403) and index |
| Notes |
Latin |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Water-supply -- Italy -- Rome -- Early works to 1800
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Aqueducts -- Italy -- Rome -- Early works to 1800
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Water-supply -- Early works to 1800
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Aqueducts -- Early works to 1800
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Aqueducts
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Water-supply
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Italy -- Rome
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| Genre/Form |
Early works
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Rodgers, Robert H. (Robert Howard), 1944-
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| LC no. |
2003053181 |
| ISBN |
0511194641 |
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9780511194641 |
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9780511193903 |
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0511193904 |
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9780521832519 |
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0521832519 |
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0511195303 |
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9780511195303 |
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1316086038 |
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9781316086032 |
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1280477881 |
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9781280477881 |
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0511195966 |
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9780511195969 |
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0511314310 |
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9780511314315 |
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