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Gromatici (from Latin groma or gruma, a surveyor's pole) or agrimensores was the name for land surveyors amongst the ancient Romans. The "gromatic writers"...

Diognetus Philonides of Chersonissos Ancient Greek units of measurement Gromatici Surveyor's wheel Tzifopoulos, Yannis (2013). "Bematists". In Bagnall,...

as managing taxes for the treasury. Siculus Flaccus, one of the Roman gromatici (i.e. land surveyor), wrote the Categories of Fields, which aided Roman...

 71. Editions: Friedrich Blume, Karl Lachmann, Adolf Friedrich Rudorff: Gromatici veteres. Die Schriften der römischen Feldmesser. Band 1, Georg Reimer...

India, where it stimulated the development of geometry and mathematics. Gromatici Surveying Trigonometry Robillard, Walter G.; Wilson, Donald A.; Brown...

Agennius Urbicus, Hyginus Gromaticus and other writers, known as the Gromatici or Agrimensores ("land surveyors"). The work is preserved in various manuscripts...

tax register of conquered lands (300 AD). Roman surveyors were known as Gromatici. In medieval Europe, beating the bounds maintained the boundaries of a...

of the Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum reads in part exp[licit] Kygini gromatici constitutio feliciter ("The establishment of Kyginus the Surveyor explains...

Barbarian Princess and The Emperor's Games. Cloaca Maxima Dolaucothi Gromatici List of aqueducts in the city of Rome List of aqueducts in the Roman Empire...

(viae privatae) in Roman Italy. Roman roads Campbell, John Brian (2003). "gromatici". In Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth (ed.). The Oxford Classical...

and a device called a groma, which helped them obtain right angles. The gromatici, the Roman equivalent of rod men, placed rods and put down a line called...

Lange, Hygini Gromatici, Liber De Munitionibus Castrorum (Göttingen 1848). Latin text and commentary in Latin. W. Gemoll, Hygini Gromatici, Liber De Munitionibus...

had to surrender to Quintus Labienus. He is also mentioned as the first Gromatici. Ronald Syme: Who was Decidius Saxa? In: Journal of Roman studies 27 (1937)...

conditionibus et constitutionibus limitum. Three of the texts of the gromatici’s corpus were published previously by Johannes Sichardus in Basel in 1528...

who used graduated measuring rods called decempedae ("10-footers") and gromatici who used a groma, a sighting device consisting of a vertical staff with...

an understanding of Silvanus's tripartite nature as described in the Gromatici Veteres and by St. Augustine. Peter F. Dorcey, The Cult of Silvanus: A...

of the Roman government devoted to transportation, employed full-time gromatici (surveyors). The surveyors' job was to gather topographical information...

generally referred to as groma, from the name of the instrument used by the gromatici (surveyors).[citation needed] In such cases, the grid was traced by extending...

1088/1757-899X/364/1/012010 Southern Polytechnic State University ROMAN GROMATICI PRACTICES, http://www.surveyhistory.org/southern_polytechnic_state_university1...

mentioned by Ptolemy, and in the Libri Coloniarum ("Book of Colonies") of the Gromatici Veteres (c. 5th century AD) along with the Tariotes. The Sardiates are...