Urbicus
Urbicus is Latin for "of the city" or "civic", and may refer to: * Aggenus Urbicus, Roman technical writer * Quintus Lollius Urbicus Quintus Lollius Urbicus was a Numidian Berber governor of Roman Britain between the years 139 and 142, during the reign of the Emperor Antoninus Pius. He is named in the ''Historia Augusta'', although it is not entirely historical, and his name ..., Roman governor of Britain See also

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Aggenus Urbicus
Aggenus Urbicus (also Agennius Urbicus) was an ancient Roman technical writer appearing in the ''Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum'', a collection of works on land surveying from Late Antiquity. It is uncertain when he lived, but he may have been a Christian living in the later part of the 4th century, judging by expressions he uses. Only two, fragmentary works are preserved in the ''Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum'' under his name: * ''De controversiis agrorum'' ("On Land Disputes") * ''Commentum de agrorum qualitate'' ("Commentary on Land Quality"), a commentary on the work of this name by Frontinus. * The ''Liber Diazographus'' ("Multi-coloured Painter Book") attached to the ''Commentum'' is sometimes counted as a third work. Name The correct form of the author's name is uncertain. In the oldest surviving manuscript of both works, the 6th- or 7th-century Codex Arcerianus, the name appears as AGGENVS or AGENVS VRBICVS. The form used most often in scholarship, Agennius Urbicus, der ...
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