Corpus Agrimensorum Romanorum

A third sub-set of works in the corpus are writings which deal with the mathematical and geometric aspects of land surveying.

The most important of these are the Expositio et ratio omnium formarum (Explanation and Calculation of All Shapes) by Balbus and a mathematical work by Epaphrodites and Vitruvius Rufus[5] Various other texts are also bundled into the Corpus, including:[6] The Corpus is transmitted in several manuscripts.

The Corpus, especially its mathematical portions, were also included in the encyclopaedic works of Late Antiquity.

In 1554, Adrianus Turnebus published a printed edition of the majority of the Corpus, including the important Agrimensores, under the title De Agrorum Conditionibus et Constitutionibus Limitum (On the Creation of Fields and Delimitation of their Borders).

[14] The German ancient historian, Karl Lachmann edited significant portions of the collection, especially the writings of the Agrimensores Frontinues, Agennius Urbicus, Hyginus Gromaticus and Siculus Flaccus, as well as the Libri Coloniarum in 1848.