A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

F. QUIRINA, an architect, known by an extant inscription, in which he is described as Architectus Exercit., from which it appears that he devoted especial attention to military engineering, which, among the ancients, was always considered a branch of architecture. (Donati, Supplem. vol. i. p. 38, No. 1; Sillig, Catal. Artific. Appendix, s.v. R. Rochette, Lettre à M. Schorn, p. 422, 2d ed.)

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