Ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits - Frontinus 10 AD.
Sextus Julius Frontinus (ca. 40–103 AD) was one of the most distinguished Roman aristocrats of the late 1st 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.
In 70 AD he was praetor, and five years later was sent into Britain to succeed Quintus Petillius Cerialis as governor of that island.
He subdued the Silures and other hostile tribes of Wales, establishing a new base at Caerleon or Isca Augusta for Legio II Augusta and a network of smaller forts fifteen to twenty kilometres apart for his auxiliary units. One of these forts would have been Luentinum which controlled the gold mine of Dolaucothi, worked by numerous aqueducts.
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