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APPENDIX OF AUTHORS AND WORKS<br />

Plinius in ihrem Verhdlmis \u Varro (Berlin 1971); T. Koves-Zulauf, 'Die Vorrede<br />

der plinianischen Naturgeschichte', W.S. 86 (1973) 134-84.<br />

FRONTINUS, SEXTUS IULIUS<br />

LIFE<br />

b. c. A.D. 35. Praetor 70, consul suffectus c. 74. Legate of Britain c. 76—8; subdued<br />

Silures. Appointed curator aquarum by Nerva c. 96—7. Consul again in 98 <strong>and</strong> 100. d.<br />

103 or 104. Sources: Frontin. De aquis 1 (curator), Strat. 4.3.14; Pliny, Epist. 4.8.3<br />

(P. succe<strong>eds</strong> F. as augur; see Sherwin-White, ad he.), 5.15, 9.19, Pan. 61-2 (thrice<br />

consul); Tac. Agr. 17.2 (in Britain), Hist. 4.39 (praetor); Mart. 10.58; Ael. Tact.<br />

praef.; Veget. De re mil. 2.3; PIR 2 1 322. See A. Kappelmacher, RE x (1919) 591—5.<br />

WORKS<br />

(1) EXTANT: Strategemata (4 bks), written between A.D. 83 <strong>and</strong> 96, <strong>and</strong> De aquis (1 or<br />

2 bks), c. A.D. 98. (2) LOST: Works on surveying (fragments, or adaptations, in C.<br />

Thulin, Corpus agrimensorum Romanorum I 1 (BT, 1913)), <strong>and</strong> on the art of war<br />

(Strat. praef. <strong>and</strong> Veget. 1.8).<br />

BIBLIOGRAPHY<br />

TEXTS: Strat.: G. Gundermann (BT, 1888); G. Bendz, 2nd ed. (Berlin 1978). De<br />

aquis: F. Buecheler (BT, 1858); F. Krohn (BT, 1922); C. Kunderewicz (BT, 1973).<br />

Both works: C. E. Bennett (Loeb, 1925).<br />

STUDIES: G. Bendz, Die Echtheitsfrage des vierten Buches der Frontinischen<br />

Strategemata (Lund 1938); N. Wood,' Frontinus as a possible source for Machiavelli's<br />

method', J.H.I. 28 (1967) 243-8.<br />

INDEX: G. Bendz (Lund 1958).<br />

QUINTILIANUS, MARCUS FABIUS<br />

LIFE<br />

b. c. A.D. 35 at Calagurris in Spain. Taught at Rome by the orator Domitius Afer. At<br />

some time returned to Spain, <strong>and</strong> recalled by Galba 68. Active as teacher <strong>and</strong> advocate<br />

for twenty years; first rhetorician to receive public salary. Received ornamenta<br />

consularia for educating Domitian's two great-nephews, d. probably not before A.D.<br />

95, perhaps years later. Sources: Quint. Inst. 1 praef. 1 (duration of teaching), 2.12.12<br />

(retirement), 4 praef. 2 (tutor to Domitian's heirs), 5.7.7 (Afer; see Pliny, Epist.<br />

903<br />

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