The Strategemata: AthenianArts.Com By Sextus Julius Frontinus

Sextus Julius Frontinus (ca. 40-103 AD) was one of the most distinguished Roman aristocrats of the late first century AD, but is best known to the post-Classical world as an author of technical treatises, especially one dealing with the aqueducts of Rome.

Frontinus also wrote a theoretical treatise on military science, which is lost. His extant work on military matters, the Strategemata, is a collection of examples of military stratagems from Greek and Roman history, ostensibly for the use of generals. He draws on his own experience as a general in Germany under Domitian, but similarities between the anecdotes he records and versions in other Roman authors like Valerius Maximus and Livy suggest that he drew mainly on literary sources.