| LC control no. | no2021089562 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Urbicus, Aggenus |
| Variant(s) | Aggenus, Urbicus Urbicus, Aggenius Ùrbico, Agènio Urbicus, Agenius Agennius, Gromaticus Agenius, Gromaticus Pseudo-Agennius, Urbicus Pseudo-Agennius, Gromaticus Aggenus, writer on husbandry |
| Other standard no. | 212093546 |
| Beginning date | 03 |
| Ending date | 04 |
| Associated country | Rome |
| Field of activity | Surveying Agronomy Land tenure |
| Profession or occupation | Surveyors |
| Special note | Urbicus was a Roman cognomen, that is surname; other authority files' treatment of it as a title would appear to be in error. |
| Found in | Codex Theodosianus. Codicis Theodosiani libri XVI, mense Martio, anno MDXXVIII, March 1528: title page (Aggenus Urbicus) Treccani, encyclopedia online, viewed July 28, 2021 (Agènio Ùrbico; Latin surveyor of perhaps the 4th century; author of De controversiis agrorum, a commentary on the work of Frontinus, and Commentum de agrorum qualitate, based on Frontinus; name in Latin: Agenius or Agennius or Aggenus Urbĭcus) <https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/agenio-urbico/> Wikipedia, viewed July 28, 2021 (Aggenus Urbicus, also Agennius Urbicus, ancient Roman technical writer who appeared in Corpus agrimensorum Romanorum, a collection of works on land surveying from Late Antiquity) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggenus_Urbicus> Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, online authority file, viewed July 28, 2021 (Agennius, Urbicus; active 4/5th century; name variants: Agennius, Gromaticus; Pseudo-Agennius, Urbicus; Aggennius, Urbicus; Aggenus, Writer on Husbandry; Agenius, Urbicus; Agenius, Gromaticus; Pseudo-Agennius, Gromaticus; Aggenus, Urbicus; Urbicus, Agennus; Aggenus Urbicus; Aggenus, Urbicus; Urbicus, Agennius) <http://d-nb.info/gnd/102378452> Bibliothèque nationale de France, online authority file, viewed July 28, 2021 (Aggenus Urbicus; agronomic writer from the first half of the second century; Christian; Italian) <https://www.idref.fr/127869964> Campbell, J.B. Writings of the Roman land surveyors : introduction, text, translation and commentary, 2000: pp. xxxi-xxxii (Aggenius Urbicus; Ageni Vrbici de controversiis agrorum; Commentum also ascribed to Urbicus but that work is anonymous and should not be ascribed to him; very little is known about Urbicus, but style and syntax suggest he was a late Latin writer; recent work suggests that there are correspondences between Urbicus' work and the law relating to land disputes as it stood in the 4th century; may tentatively date him to late fourth or early fifth century) Identifiants et Référentiels, online authority file, viewed July 29, 2021 (Aggenus Urbicus) <https://www.idref.fr/127869964> |
| Associated language | lat |
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