1. А кто из участников обсуждения утверждал, что римляне презирали науку? Вопрос в том, какие именно её отрасли. Ни одного римского учёного-медика, математика или астронома мы не знаем, Манилий в этом смысле персона сомнительная, а Германик хоть перевёл Арата, но сам исследованиями не занимался.
2. Спасибо, буду знать, век живи век учись.

Только мы про науку и малость про философию, а Вы про риторику, так что немного мимо цели.
1. Ну уж. Так и ни одного? Преувеличение. На одном форуме, где я тоже обретаюсь, я уже выкладывал геометров (в основном) римского периода. Есть такая книжка (энциклопедия):
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANCIENT NATURAL SCIENTISTS The Greek tradition and its many heirs
Edited by Paul T. Keyser and Georgia L. Irby-Massie First published 2008
by Routledge
Если вы не считаете грекоязычных учёных римского периода римлянами (хотя мне и невдомёк, почему, и я, если честно, пребываю в некотором недоумении...), то были и латиноязычные математики. Некоторых приведу в пример. Например Calcidius (в т. ч. астроном: математика и астрономия зачастую пересекающиеся в античности дисциплины) (ок. 400 г.; частичный перевод Платонова "Тимея" на латынь с Комментариями), Martianus Minneius Felix Capella of Carthage (ca 430 CE? Everything concerning the life of Capella is a matter of conjecture; some date him to the
last decades of the 5th c.) (кн. 6 Геометрия, кн. 7 Арифметика, кн. 8 Астрономия, кн. 9 Гармония)
Epaphroditos and Vitruuius Rufus (200 – 300 CE?)
A collection of geometrical problems to be found in Latin gromatic MSS (i.e. collections of
texts about land surveying) has survived with these two otherwise unknown names attached
to it; but Lachmann did not include them in his edition of the corpus. Following the same
order as that in the works attributed to Herodus of Alexandria (Metrika I, authentic, and
Geo¯metrika, considered apocryphal), whose influence is obvious, the calculations of perimeters
and areas of triangles, of quadrangular figures, regular polygons, and of the circle
and its segments are all dealt with practically, with detailed figures but no attempt at demonstration,
which is a great difference from the Metrika. Surprisingly, the polygonal areas
(pentagon and so on up to dodecagon) are here dealt with arithmetically, not geometrically;
they are looked at in the Pythagorean manner as sums, not products. The origin of these
developments ought to be looked for in Diophantos’ treatise Polygonal Numbers, which
provides evidence for dating. As they show similarities with the Podismus (Lachmann,
pp. 295–301), Epaphroditos’ and Vitruuius’ excerpts may bear some link with the calculation
of triangular, trapezoidal, and pentagonal subseciua (minor areas of a centuriation not
allotted to any owner), such as presented by Iunius Nipsius (Lachmann p. 290).
Ed.: N. Bubnov, Gerberti opera mathematica (1899); CAR 3 (1996).
Jean-Yves Guillaumin
Balbus (102 – 106 CE?)
Nothing is known of this man’s life. If the beginning of his treatise does refer to Trajan’s
expedition to Dacia, it can be dated to between 102 and 106. The Expositio et ratio omnium
formarum has come to us in mutilated form; this is why, contrary to what its title promises,
it does not deal with all figures. This handbook of geometry was written by an agrimensor:
the author therefore always keeps in mind the relationship between geometry and a surveyor’s
work. Beside definitions concerning the categories of Roman land management
(rigor, extremitas, decumanus, cardo, ager arcifinius), the geometrical definitions (point, line, parallel,
area, and so on) to be found in the extant part of the Expositio testify that Euclid’s Elements
had already been translated into Latin, at least Books 1 to 3, when Balbus wrote, therefore a
long time before such translations as attested by Martianus Capella or attributed to
Boethius. The fortunes of this handbook, to be found in many MSS and still used in
the medieval Demonstratio artis geometricae edited by Lachmann, are precisely due to its offering
only definitions together with very elaborate figure classifications. In this respect it is
comparable with the Greek Definitiones attributed to Heron of Alexandria, actually
apocryphal but whose substance may date back to him.
K. Lachmann, Die Schriften der Römischen Feldmesser, v.1 (1848); French translation and commentary:
Guillaumin, Balbus (1996) = CAR 3.
Victorius of Aquitania (445 – 465 CE)
Что касается астрономических знаний, то римляне совершенствовались. Например был введён уточнённый Юлианский календарь. А календарь основан именно на астрономических знаниях и расчётах... Опять же перед битвой при Пидне есть свидетельство о том, что римляне знали заранее о лунном затмении, что для македонян оказалось неожиданностью. Опять же перед нами очевидные астрономические знания.
Римские медики тоже не отсутствуют (кто такой Цельс, надеюсь, напоминать не прийдётся...). Например
Krinas of Massalia (25 – 50 CE)
Physician, included in
Plinius’s entertaining catalogue of fashionable doctors of the early
Empire (29.9). Krinas earned an enormous fortune, partly spent on public works in
Massalia, by practicing iatromathematics at Rome. His technique was based on consulting
ephemerides, many fragments of which are extant among the Greek astronomical
papyri from Roman Egypt.
BNP 3 (2003) 943, V. Nutton.
Alexander Jones
У меня нет Плиния. И латынью не владею. Но вот по раннему периоду до времён Плиния Старшего в указанном месте чего-нибудь да обнаружете о римских врачах...
Heluius Vindicianus (ca 350 – 410 CE)
Prominent politician and physician, perhaps receiving literary and medical education in
Roman Gaul...
Валерий Паулин (ок. 30 г. до н. э. - 90 г. н. э.), Веттий Валент (ок. 35 - 48 г. г.)
И это не считая такие важные личности, как врач и личный друг императора Юлиана Отступника Орибазий (боже упаси - он ведь тоже может оказаться греком!; тот самый, который был отправлен императором к Дельфийскому оракулу, и которому было обращено его последнее пророчество).
Римские астрономы тоже имелись. Например Фавоний Эвлогий из Карфагена, император Тит:
T. Flauius Vespasianus (70 – 78 CE)
The Roman emperor “Titus” (reigned 79–81 CE) is credited by P 2.89 with a work on
the comet of 76 CE
M. Fuluius Nobilior (ca 190 – 179 BCE)
Son of Marcus, grandson of Seruius, successful as praetor 193 BCE in Spain, then as consul
in 189 against Aitolian Ambrakia, a lucrative conquest celebrated by Ennius, but
reproached by Cato as exaggerated, censor 179. Constructed the temple of “Hercules of
the Muses” at Rome, wherein he placed his commentary on the Fasti (Roman civil and legal
calendar), which included folk-etymologies of Latin month-names: March (Mars), April
(Aphrodite¯), May (maior, older), June (iunior, younger): Varro, LL 6.33, Censorinus
20.2–4, 22.9, Macrobius Theodosius, Sat. 1.12.16, 1.13.21. He is also said to have
advocated astral studies as a means to comprehend the divine (Ioannes "Lydus", de Ost.
16 [p. 47 Wa.]), perhaps influenced by Aratos, or the sole Aitolian poet, Alexander of Pleuron.
GRL 1, §77; P. Boyancé, “Fulvius Nobilior et le Dieu Ineffable,” RevPhil s.3, v.29 (1955) 172–192; DPA 3
(2000) 434, M. Ducos; BNP 5 (2004) 572–583 (#I.15), K.-H. Elvers.
L. Iulianus Vertacus (300 – 470 CE)
Writer on arithmetic and astrology, used by Anthedius (Sidonius Apollinaris, Ep. 8.11.10;
Carmen 22.pr.3).
PLRE 1 (1971) 952.
Manilius’ Astronomica
Техника:
Iulius Africanus (ca 190 – 235 CE)
Born ca 160 CE; in addition to his five books on the world chronology, both pagan and
Christian, from early ages to his own time, his main work is a technical encyclopedia entitled
Kestoì (“Embroideries”), written between 227/8 and 232/3 and presented to the emperor
Alexander Seuerus. No firm hypothesis can be made about the actual framework of this
book, since only excerpts and fragments have come down to us. Since a papyrus preserves
the end of Book 18, the original number of books was likely 24 (Souda A-4647).
Vieillefond divides this material into these main sections, exhibiting a variety of interests
and approaches: extracts from Book 7: on warfare, on horse diseases, on weights and measures,
lyric fragments; extracts from Book 13: on cinnamon, on dyeing. The metrological
chapters, in five recensions, appear as a somewhat muddled conflation of lemmas. In descending
order, Africanus explained the main weights, liquid- and grain-measures used in the
Mediterranean, along with each sub-multiple. Some recensions record the corresponding
weight of the Roman currency system in use later than Africanus’ time, or assign this
extract to Heron or Didumos, suggesting this section should perhaps be credited to a
different writer.
RE 10.1 (1917) 116–125 (#47), W. Kroll; J.-R. Vieillefond, Les “Cestes” de Julius Africanus (1970);
H. Chantraine, “Der metrologische Traktat des Sextus Iulius Africanus, seine Zugehörigkeit zu den
κεστο und seine Authentizität,” Hermes 105 (1977) 422–441; OCD3 778, J.F. Matthews; T. Rampoldi,
“I ‘κεστο’ di Giulio Africano e l’imperatore Severo Alessandro,” in ANRW 2.34.3 (1997) 2451–2470;
RAC 19 (2001) 508–518, F. Winkelmann; NP 11 (2001) 494–495 (“Sextus” #2), J. Rist.
Mauro de Nardis
Ботаник:
C. Vibius Rufinus of Tusculum (45 – 65 CE)
Архитектура:
Витрувий...
Энциклопедисты (всего понемногу... или по многу; work of systematic knowledge collection):
Плиний Старший...
А вообще-то интересно... Кем же были Герод Аттик, Флавий Арриан? Римлянами, или греками? Императоры Геродиан, Адриан, Филипп Араб, Максимин Фракиец? А кем был диадох Академии Марин родом из палестинского Флавия Неаполя, писавший на греческом, или Филон Александрийский?
2. А что про философию? Тит Лукреций Кар, сам Цицерон, Сенека, Секст Эмпирик. Разве нет?
3. И что с риторикой? То-есть, вы считаете, что римляне занимались только риторикой из греческих наук?
Vitruuius received a liberal arts education before training as an architect. His handbook
in part presents architecture as a liberal art, whose practice had to be based on a mastery of
those fundamentals of liberal knowledge common to many disciplines. In addition to
the
standard seven subjects (mathematics, music, geometry, astronomy; grammar, rhetoric,
logic), he also lists draftsmanship, knowledge of painting and sculpture, law, and philosophy.