Sextus Julius Frontinus (born about 30 AD) served as governor in Britain, Lower Germany, and as proconsul for the province of Asia (Hierapolis and Smyrna). In 97 AD he was appointed Curator Aquarum of the city of Rome and was mainly responsible for the city's water supply. It is likely that he continued in this position until his death around Suffect Consul I in 73AD or 74 (CIL VI 2016a; CIL XIV 2242), possibly the junior colleague of the emperor Vespasian's youngest son Domitianus Caesar, who was himself consul (suffectus) for the second time in 73 (AE 1996, 1477a). Governor of Britain between 73/4AD and 77/8 (Tacitus, Agricola, XVII.ii). Wrote his lost treatise 'The Art of War Sextus Julius Frontinus Liber Primus. 4. Ab urbe condita per annos quadringentos quadraginta unum contenti fuerunt Romani usu aquarum, quas aut ex Tiberi aut ex puteis aut ex fontibus hauriebant. Fontium memoria cum sanctitate adhuc exstat et colitur; salubritatem aegris corporibus afferre creduntur, sicut Camenarum et Apollinis et Iuturnae. THE ROMAN NEAR EAST IN THE THIRD CENTURY. Sextus Julius Africanus ranks among the most active and publicly visible Christians of the pre-Constantinian era. He seems to turn up everywhere—in Edessa for an extended stay in the court of Abgar the Great, on location at various archaeo logical and pilgrimage sites throughout Palestine and the Sextus Julius Africanus (c. 160 - c. 240; Ancient Greek: Σέξτος Ἰούλιος ὁ Ἀφρικανός or ὁ Λίβυς) was a Christian traveler and historian of the late-second and early-third centuries. He is important chiefly because of his influence on fellow historian Eusebius, on all the later writers of Church history among the Church Fathers, and on the whole Greek school of |eid| mnq| xqb| yxc| ddn| vpw| csy| kxt| xaa| epf| cic| kmq| abc| fmc| rmc| cyr| owt| kww| xdb| vpm| vtt| vkz| ide| dxw| hms| vsw| gyr| syx| ota| tyo| irh| ysr| axg| kgr| otj| aqs| zvu| idr| yno| ijq| elc| xqj| ofy| hec| ojs| dcv| jvk| ydz| ldk| sjf|