The aqueductsJ. Parker, 1876 - Architecture, Roman |
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agger Alexander Severus Alsietina ancient angle Anio Novus Anio Vetus Appia Nova Aqua Appia Aqua Felice Aqua Marcia aque aqueduct Arch of Dolabella Arches of Nero Augustus Aventine bank branch brick bridge built called carried castella castellum aquæ cave Claudia and Anio Claudian arcade cliff Cœlian conduit enters Rome excavations foss fountain Frontinus garden gate ground Hadrian hill inscription junction Lacus lake large reservoir Latina loch Lorenzo Marcian Marcian arcade Marrana miles from Rome Minerva Medica Nymphæum old specus Palatine passes piers piscina Porta Capena Porta Furba Porta Maggiore probably quarry remains river Almo river Anio road rock Rome Sabatina seen Servius Tullius Sessorian Sessorium shewn shews side Spes springs stone stream Subiaco subterranean supply temple Tepula therma third century Tiber Tivoli Torre Fiscale tower traced Trajan tufa tunnel underground valley Via Appia Via Latina Via Sublacensis Villa Virgo visible Wall of Aurelian
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Page 91 - Roman marriages at the end of the first and the beginning of the second century were childless.
Page 5 - ... the sources of the Aqua Appia are still to be seen in caves formed by ancient stone quarries, near a tenement called La Rustica.
Page 77 - Establishments which used 2,401 quinaries, and 39 theatres and places of entertainment (munera) which used 386 more. Lastly, there were 591 open reservoirs (lacus) for the service of all comers, using 1,335 quinaries. These reservoirs were what we usually speak of as fountains, and some hundreds are in use to this day, many probably on the site of the older ones. There were very stringent laws respecting their use. Heavy penalties were inflicted upon anyone dipping a dirty bucket or other vessel...
Page 30 - Etruscans having passed the Tiber), had not the Consul Horatius been recalled from the country of the Volscians. So near indeed did the enemy approach to the walls, that first the engagement was at the temple of Spes, in which little was gained on either side ; again at the Porta Collina, in which the Romans gained some small advantage, and this, though far from decisive, yet by restoring to the soldiers their former courage, qualified them the better to contend with the enemy in future 1.
Page 22 - Speranza Vecchia, del monumento delle Acque Claudia ed Aniene Nuova, e del Sepolcro di Marco Virgilio Eurisace, dell' architetto cav. Luigi Canina." 8vo., Roma, 1839, with six Plates ; extracted from the Annali dell
Page 72 - Access was obtained by an opening to the chambers beneath, and the mud was from time to time cleaned out.
Page 30 - Tuditanus, reduced by force the town of Aternum, took above seven thousand prisoners, and a considerable quantity of brass and silver coin. At Rome a dreadful fire raged during two nights and one day: every thing between the Salinae and the Carmental gate was levelled to the ground, as were the jEquimaelium and the Jugarian street.