Frontinus
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Sextus Julius Frontinus was a Roman civil engineer, author, soldier and senator of the late 1st century AD. He was a successful general under Domitian, commanding forces in Roman Britain, and on the R
Medallion portrait of Frontinus on the title page of the Bipontine edition of his works.
Remains of aqueducts Aqua Claudia and Aqua Anio Novus, integrated into the Aurelian Wall as a gate in 271 AD.
Remains of Aqua Claudia
Stratagemata, 1664
Strategemata
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Strategemata, or Stratagems, is a Latin work by the Roman author Frontinus. It is a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history, ostensibly for the use of generals. Fron
Frontinus
…enforcement of those statutes. Frontinus also wrote a theoretical treatise on military science, which is lost. His extant work on military matters, the Stratagems (Latin: Strategemata), is a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history, for the use of generals. He draws on his own…
The 19th-century scholar Gotthold Gundermann edited the Latin text for the Bibliotheca Teubneriana series