[publicclassics] Hyginus, Liber de munitionibus castrorum

[Dn Campbell]

The anonymous treatise known as the Liber de munitionibus castrorum, normally attributed to an author named Hyginus, is a major source of information about the Roman imperial army. It describes the layout of a temporary camp and enumerates the various military units in a large campaigning army commanded by the Roman emperor. Major difficulties in the text, which is preserved in a single manuscript of the sixth century, have resulted in two different Teubner editions (1879 and 1977), as well as rival German (1887), French (1979), and Italian (2012) editions.

 Now for the first time, an English-language edition has been published by Bocca della Verità Publishing, in conjunction with Amazon Direct Publishing. A new Latin text is presented with Loeb-style facing-page translation and apparatus criticus, and accompanied by a bilingual index and an introduction, explaining the history and content of the text.

Duncan B Campbell: Fortifying a Roman Camp. The Liber de munitionibus castrorum of Hyginus. Latin and English. Glasgow: Bocca della Verità Publishing 2018. x + 90 pp., 1 fig.
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