Caesar himself mentions few place-names ; and although the battle is called after Pharsalos, four ancient writers – the author of the Bellum Alexandrinum ( 48. 1 ), Frontinus ( Strategemata 2. 3. 22 ), Eutropius ( 20 ), and Orosius ( 6. 15. 27 ) – place it specifically at Palaepharsalos.

Frontinus extended Roman rule to all of South Wales, and initiated exploitation of the mineral resources, such as the gold mines at Dolaucothi.

* Governor Sextus Julius Frontinus subdues the Silures and other hostile tribes of Wales, establishing a fortress at Caerleon or Isca Augusta for Legio II Augusta and makes a network of smaller forts for his auxiliary forces.

* Julius Frontinus Stratagems, II 1. 14, 2. 4 ( Tigranocerta ), II 5. 30 ( Pontic assassination attempt 72 BC ), II 7. 8 ( Macedonian cavalry during Cabira campaign ), III 13. 6 ( swimming messenger at siege of Cyzicus )

The aqueduct system was investigated by the general Frontinus at the end of the first century AD, who published his report on its state direct to the emperor Nerva.

At Langres in the summer of 1417 he discovered Cicero's Oration for Caecina and nine other hitherto unknown orations of Cicero's, at Monte Cassino in 1425 a manuscript of Frontinus ' late first century De aquaeductu on the ancient aqueducts of Rome.

Notwithstanding these inventions of the Alexandrian school, its attention does not seem to have been directed to the motion of fluids ; and the first attempt to investigate this subject was made by Sextus Julius Frontinus, inspector of the public fountains at Rome in the reigns of Nerva and Trajan.

Although the battle of 48 BC is called after Pharsalos, four ancient writers-the author of the Bellum Alexandrinum ( 48. 1 ), Frontinus ( Strategemata 2. 3. 22 ), Eutropius ( 20 ), and Orosius ( 6. 15. 27 )-place it specifically at Palaepharsalos.

They also left texts describing their achievements, especially Pliny the Elder, Frontinus and Vitruvius.

Though Vegetius had no military experience, and De re militari was derived from the works of Cato and Frontinus, his books were the standard for military discourse in western Europe from their production until the 16th century.

Frontinus refers to " Vitruvius the architect " in his late 1st-century work De aquaeductu.

* Sextus Julius Frontinus, De Aquaeductu Urbis Romae ( On the water management of the city of Rome ), Translated by R. H. Rodgers, 2003, University of Vermont

* The standard edition of the Latin text of Frontinus ' major work, with extensive commentary in English, is now R. H. Rodgers, Frontinus: De aquaeductu urbis Romae ( Cambridge University Press, 2004 ).

* Sextus Julius Frontinus, twice consul in the late 1st century, and author of De Aquaeductu.

According to Sextus Julius Frontinus ( De aquis urbis Romæ, 11, 1-2: opus naumachiæ ), the water supply for the naumachia of Augustus was specially constructed, with the surplus used to water neighbouring gardens in the Trans Tiberim.

The earliest of the gromatic writers was Frontinus, whose De agrorum qualitate, dealing with the legal aspect of the art, was the subject of a commentary by Aggenus Urbicus, a Christian schoolmaster.

* Sextus Julius Frontinus, Strategemata

* Stratagems ( Latin: Strategemata ), by the 1st-century Roman author Frontinus, which concerns military stratagems drawn from Greek and Roman history.

In common with Frontinus ' work ( see above ), the title is sometimes given as Strategemata.

* Frontinus: The Strategemata

* Julius Frontinus, a Latin rhetorician, who gave instruction in his art to Severus Alexander.

* Extracts from a treatise on land surveying ascribed to Frontinus are preserved in B. Campbell ( 2000 ), The Writings of the Roman Land Surveyors: Introduction, Text, Translation and Commentary ; London.

Frontinus mentions him in connection with the standard sizes of pipes.

Niccolò Machiavelli attempted to address Vegetius ' defects in his L ' arte della Guerra ( Florence, 1521 ), with heavy use of Polybius, Frontinus and Livy, but Justus Lipsius ' accusation that he confused the institutions of diverse periods of the Roman Empire and G. Stewechius ' opinion that the survival of Vegetius ' work led to the loss of his named sources were more typical of the late Renaissance.

* Herschel, C, The Two Books on The Water Supply of the City of Rome of Frontinus, ( trans with explanatory chapters ) New England Water Works Association ( 1973 ).

Niccolò Machiavelli attempted to address Vegetius's defects in his L ' arte della Guerra ( Florence, 1521 ), with heavy use of Polybius, Frontinus and Livy, but Justus Lipsius ' accusation that he confused the institutions of diverse periods of the Roman Empire and G. Stewechius ' opinion that the survival of Vegetius ' work led to the loss of his named sources were more typical of the late Renaissance.

* Baebius Macrinus, a rhetorician, mentioned along with Julius Frontinus and Julius Granianus, as one of the teachers of the emperor Alexander Severus.

Appian and Frontinus add that the chariots were in fact destroyed by the light armed infantry, who assailed the Mithridatic unit with missiles.

In the 15th century Christine de Pizan combined themes from Vegetius, Bonet and Frontinus in Livre des faits d ' armes et de chevalerie.

However, Frontinus criticized the practice of mixing supplies from different sources, and one of his first decisions was to separate the waters from each system.

But they also acted as judices, and could give a final decision in that class of smaller questions which concerned the quinque pedes of the Lex Mamilia ( the law setting which boundary spaces were not subject to usucapio ), as appears from Frontinus.

The writers of those times, including Vitruvius, Frontinus and Pliny the Elder, treat these engines as commonplace, so their invention may be more ancient.

After Vespasian secured the empire, his first two appointments as governor, Quintus Petillius Cerialis and Sextus Julius Frontinus, took on the task of subduing the Brigantes and Silures respectively.

* Sextus Julius Frontinus is praetor of Rome.

* Frontinus begins his conquest of Wales, Legio II Augusta is moved to the border of the River Usk.

* Gnaeus Julius Agricola replaces Sextus Julius Frontinus as governor of Roman Britain which leads to the eventual taming of the Welsh tribes of Britain.

* Sextus Julius Frontinus is appointed superintendent of the aqueducts ( curator aquarum ) in Rome.

* Emperor Trajan and Sextus Julius Frontinus become Roman Consuls.

Unauthorised plumbing into Rome's aqueducts was always a problem, as Frontinus records much later.

* Sextus Julius Frontinus.

These antiquarian sources, according to his own statement, were Cato the Elder, Cornelius Celsus, Frontinus, Paternus and the imperial constitutions of Augustus, Trajan, and Hadrian ( 1. 8 ).