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gromatic, a. and n.|grəʊˈmætɪk|
[ad. L. grōmātic-us, grūm-, f. grōma, grūma surveyor's measuring-rod.]
A. adj. Pertaining to land-surveying.
1873Wagner tr. Teuffel's Hist. Roman Lit. II. 149 From the gromatic work [of Frontinus] we possess only explanatory excerpts. Ibid. 203 The gromatic writer Siculus Flaccus.
B. n.
a. pl. The art of land-surveying or castrametation.
b. A writer on gromatics.
[1867Burton Hist. Scot. I. ii. 79 A certain Hyginus, who calls himself a gromaticus or land-surveyor.] 1873Wagner tr. Teuffel's Hist. Roman Lit. II. 147 We possess excerpts from a work on gromatics. Ibid. 204 Balbus is repeatedly quoted by the later gromatics. |