Siculus Flaccus (date uncertain) was an ancient Roman ''
gromaticus'' (land
surveyor
Surveying or land surveying is the technique, profession, art, and science of determining the terrestrial two-dimensional or three-dimensional positions of points and the distances and angles between them. These points are usually on the ...
), and writer in
Latin
Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...
on land surveying. His work was included in a collection of gromatic treatises in the 6th century AD.
Siculus Flaccus made the distinction between public roads (viae publicae), local roads (viae vicinales) and private or estate roads (viae privatae) in Roman Italy.
[Book: The roads of Roman Italy: mobility and cultural change, by ]Ray Laurence
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Roman roads
Roman roads ( ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Republic and the Roman Em ...
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External links
Siculus Flaccus at IntraText Digital Library
Latin-language writers of late antiquity
Ancient Roman writers
Ancient Roman surveyors
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
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