Siculus Flaccus (date uncertain) was an ancient Roman ''
gromaticus'' (land
surveyor), and writer in
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
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 ( la, viae Romanae ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Re ...
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External links
Siculus Flaccus at IntraText Digital Library
Latin-language writers
Ancient Roman writers
Ancient Roman surveyors
Year of birth unknown
Year of death unknown
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