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HYGINUS (surnamed GROMATICUS, from gruma, a surveyor's measuring-See also:rod) , Latin writer on See also:land-See also:surveying, flourished in the reign of See also:Trajan (A.D. 98–117). Fragments of a See also:work on legal boundaries attributed to him will be found in C. F. See also:Lachmann, See also:Gromatici Veteres, (1848). A See also:treatise on Castrametation (De Munitionibus Castrorum), also attributed to him, is probably of later date, about the 3rd See also:century A.D. (ed. W. Gemoll, 1879; A. von Domaszewski, 1887).

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