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Gromatici

Equipment used by an ancient Roman land surveyor (gromaticus), found at the site of Aquincum, modern Budapest, Hungary

Gromatici (from Latin groma or gruma, a surveyor's pole) or agrimensores was the name for land surveyors amongst the ancient Romans.[1] The "gromatic writers" were technical writers who codified their techniques of surveying, most of whose preserved writings are found in the Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum.[2]

  1. ^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gromatici". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 612.
  2. ^ Long, George (1870), "Agrimensores", in Smith, William (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, vol. 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 71–72

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