Hyginus Gromaticus


Hyginus Gromaticus was a Latin writer on land-surveying, who flourished in the reign of Trajan. Fragments of a work on legal boundaries attributed to him will be found in C. F. Lachmann, Gromatici Veteres, i and in Carl Olof Thulin, Corpus agrimensorum Romanorum, I Opuscula agrimensorum veterum. The 'surname' Gromaticus was falsely attributed to Hyginus: There is only one reading in the manuscripts which ascribes the work to a KYGYNVS GROMATICVS. The other mss. give the work the title LIBER HYGINI GROMATICVS, so undoubtedly the book was called Liber gromaticus.
A treatise on Roman military camps, was formerly attributed to him, but is probably of later date, about the 3rd century AD and is now attributed to "Pseudo-Hyginus".