Frontinus

De Aquaeductu Urbis Romae

By: Frontinus, R. H. Rodgers (Editor)

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Hardcover | 14 July 2004

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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 Aquaeductu 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 man notorious for literary affectations of his own. R. H. Rodgers provides the first full commentary since the early eighteenth century, dividing his attention between text and language on the one hand, and content and interpretation on the other.

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"The edition [R. H. Rodgers] has produced, longingly anticipated and warmly heralded by many water researchers for many years now, is an impeccable example of scholarship. Its arrival is to be celebrated, as it gives us a new and exciting milestone in Frontinus studies. The volume is rich in every kind of detail that a water scholar might care to know." -Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, Brandeis University, The Classical Bulletin

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List of tables	p. ix
List of maps	p. x
Preface	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Sex. Julius Frontinus	p. 1
The De Aquaeductu	p. 5
Its date	p. 5
Its content and form	p. 8
Its audience and purpose	p. 12
The curator aquarum and the emperor	p. 14
The sources	p. 20
Language and style	p. 21
Lexicon of water quality	p. 23
Formulaic presentation	p. 24
Rhetorical style	p. 27
The textual tradition	p. 30
The Middle Ages	p. 30
Poggio's quest	p. 31
The Codex Hersfeldensis	p. 34
The Codex Casinensis and Peter the Deacon of Monte Cassino	p. 37
The manuscript tradition prior to C	p. 44
The recentiores	p. 46
Editions and commentaries	p. 52
Editorial conventions and the apparatus criticus	p. 58
Text and Critical Apparatus	p. 63
Sigla	p. 64
De Aqvaedvctv Vrbis Romae	p. 65
Commentary	p. 119
Appendices	p. 337
Poggio's use of the De Aquaeductu	p. 337
Inscriptions pertinent to Frontinus' text	p. 337
The impossibility of reaching an exact value for the Roman quinaria measure, by Christer Bruun, University of Toronto	p. 342
References	p. 360
Selected editions of De Aquaeductu	p. 360
Translations	p. 361
Abbreviations	p. 362
Other works	p. 364
Literary and epigraphical citations	p. 404
Index	p. 413
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