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Aquaeductu urbis Romae /
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 w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Latín |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Colección: | Cambridge classical texts and commentaries ;
42. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 431 pages) : maps. |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 360-403) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0511194641 9780511194641 9780511193903 0511193904 9780521832519 0521832519 0511195303 9780511195303 1316086038 9781316086032 1280477881 9781280477881 0511195966 9780511195969 0511314310 9780511314315 |