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

an author of whom some fragments are preserved in the collection of Agrimensores. [FRONTINUS.] He was an agrimensor by profession, and probably lived shortly after the reign of Nerva. (Fabric. Bibl. Lat. vol. iii. p. 512, ed. Ernesti.) Of the particulars of his life nothing certain is known, and there is no proof that, as Barthius supposed, he was a Christian. In some manuscripts he is named Saeculus Flaccus, but this variation seems to be merely a corrupt spelling.

[J.T.G]