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Sextus Iulius Frontinus
On the Water-Management of the City of Rome

De Aquaeductu Urbis Romae

Translated by R. H. Rodgers

The Author, the Manuscripts

As with most ancient authors, little is known of Frontinus, and the Loeb edition's introductory material, by Charles Bennett, is about as good as one can get. It also includes a fairly detailed discussion of the author­ship of both the De Aquis and the Strategemata.

The manuscripts of Frontinus are covered separately by the same author.

Text and Translations on LacusCurtius

The Latin text used is that published by Loeb in 1925, in the public domain. It is that of Clemens Herschel with minor changes.

Prof. Rodgers' translation zzz has not so far appeared in print, but was for many years published by him online; there are therefore no page numbers.

It is copyright © Robert H. Rodgers 2003, and is republished here by kind permission of Prof. Barbara Saylor Rodgers the heir to the copyright.

Other Translations Onsite

The 1925 translation by Charles Bennett in the Loeb Classical Library is also onsite; it is based on the Latin text accompanying it in the Loeb edition, which is slightly different from that translated by Prof. Rodgers.

Proofreading

The text and the introduction were provided me by Prof. Barbara Rodgers as PDF files. I proofread them just the same and caught two or three very minor typos, which I tacitly fixed.

At any rate, the text has been thoroughly proofread by several sets of eyes over the years, and it must surely be free of errors; but if there are any, I would have introduced them in migrating the text to this site (so please do report them).

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