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HALF-TITLE 2 TITLE 4 COPYRIGHT 5 DEDICATION 6 CONTENTS 8 TABLES 10 MAPS 11 PREFACE 12 INTRODUCTION 18 I SEX. JVLIVS FRONTINVS 18 II THE DE AQVAEDVCTV 22 Its date 22 Its content and form 25 Its audience and purpose 29 The curator aquarum and the emperor 31 The sources 37 III LANGUAGE AND STYLE 38 Lexicon of water quality 40 Formulaic presentation 41 Rhetorical style 44 IV THE TEXTUAL TRADITION 47 The Middle Ages 47 Poggio’s quest 48 The Codex Hersfeldensis 51 The Codex Casinensis and Peter the Deacon of Monte Cassino 54 The manuscript tradition prior to C 61 The recentiores 63 V EDITIONS AND COMMENTARIES 69 VI EDITORIAL CONVENTIONS AND THE APPARATUS CRITICUS 75 TEXT 80 SIGLA 81 IVLII FRONTINI DE AQVAEDVCTV VRBIS ROMAE 82 COMMENTARY 136 COMMENTARY 138 INSCRIPTION AND TITLE 138 APPENDIX A POGGIO’S USE OF THE DE AQVAEDVCTV 354 APPENDIX B INSCRIPTIONS PERTINENT TO FRONTINUS’ TEXT 356 APPENDIX C THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF REACHING AN EXACT VALUE FOR THE ROMAN QUINARIA MEASURE 359 REFERENCES 377 1 SELECTED EDITIONS OF DE AQUAEDUCTU (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER) 377 2 TRANSLATIONS 378 3 ABBREVIATIONS 379 4 OTHER WORKS 381 LITERARY AND EPIGRAPHICAL CITATIONS 421 INDEX 430
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- Author
- Frontinus, Sextus Julius., Rodgers, Robert H.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Engineering, Stem
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