1675 Strategemata Sextus Julius Frontinus Libri Quatuor Amsterdam Imprint

Sextii Julii Frontini Viri Consularis StrategematicΩn Sive De Solertibus Ducum Factis & Dictis. Libri Quatuor. Samuel Tennulius Variis Mss. Contulit, Emendauit, Notis Illustrauit, Et Copiosiss, Indice Rerum ac Verborum ornauit. Lugduni-Batau. & Amsteladami: Apud Abrahami & Adriani à Gaesbeeck, 1675, First Edition Compiled by Tennulius. 348 pages plus index, vignette frontispiece, vellum. In good condition. Nicely preserved. Light soiling to vellum with browned spine. A few light stains on front board. Lightly toned text block. Unmarked. Previous owner s name on back fly leaf. End papers are toned. Binding tight and intact. Please see photos. Sextus Julius Frontinus (c. 40 103 AD) was a Roman civil engineer, author, soldier and senator of the late 1st century AD. He was a successful general under Domitian, commanding forces in Roman Britain, and on the Rhine and Danube frontiers. A novus homo, he was consul three times. Frontinus ably discharged several important administrative duties for Nerva and Trajan. However, he is best known to the post-Classical world as an author of technical treatises, especially De aquaeductu, dealing with the aqueducts of Rome. Strategemata, or Stratagems, is a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history, ostensibly for the use of generals. Frontinus is assumed to have written Strategemata towards the end of the first century AD, possibly in connection with a lost work on military theory. Frontinus is best known as a writer on water engineering, but he had a distinguished military career. In Stratagems he draws partly on his own experience as a general in Germany under Domitian. However, most of the (more than five hundred) examples which he gives are less recent, for example he mentions the Siege of Uxellodunum in 51 BC. Similarities to versions in other Roman authors like Valerius Maximus and Livy suggest that he drew mainly on literary sources. The work consists of four books, of which three are undoubtedly by Frontinus. The authenticity of the fourth book has been challenged. In the seventeenth century six or seven editions appeared, including that of Samuel Tennulius (Leyden and Amsterdam, 1675), with notes and emendations. RAREE1675DKLA - 01/21 COLH1675ODKB - 12/24 - HKREV350.…