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NOTES ON (PS.?) BALBUS GROMATICUS PP. 107.10–108.8 ED. LACHMANN

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 September 2013

Erik Bohlin
Erik Bohlin*
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Uppsala University, Sweden
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*Email: erik.o.bohlin@gmail.com
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Abstract

This article subjects the final part of the treatise Expositio et ratio omnium formarum (Systematic presentation of all figures), included in the Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum and commonly ascribed to Balbus, to fresh philological scrutiny (Balbus gromaticus pp. 107.10–108.8 ed. Lachmann). The passage deals with methods of constructing right angles for the purpose of drawing rectangular and rectilinear figures. On the basis of a reconsideration of the preserved textual witnesses and previous scholarship, the passage is critically and interpretatively studied in the form of a running commentary.

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The Cambridge Classical Journal , Volume 59 , December 2013 , pp. 1 - 28
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2013. Published by Cambridge University Press 

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