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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"...
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    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...
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    Agennius Urbicus, Hyginus Gromaticus and other writers, known as the Gromatici or Agrimensores ("land surveyors"). The work is preserved in various manuscripts...
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  •  71. Editions: Friedrich Blume, Karl Lachmann, Adolf Friedrich Rudorff: Gromatici veteres. Die Schriften der römischen Feldmesser. Band 1, Georg Reimer...
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  • Diognetus Philonides of Chersonissos Ancient Greek units of measurement Gromatici Surveyor's wheel Tzifopoulos, Yannis (2013). "Bematists". In Bagnall,...
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  • 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...
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  • (viae privatae) in Roman Italy. Roman roads Campbell, John Brian (2003). "gromatici". In Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth (ed.). The Oxford Classical...
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    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...
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  • India, where it stimulated the development of geometry and mathematics. Gromatici Surveying Trigonometry Robillard, Walter G.; Wilson, Donald A.; Brown...
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    tax register of conquered lands (300 AD). Roman surveyors were known as Gromatici. In medieval Europe, beating the bounds maintained the boundaries of a...
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