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Appian, Illyrian Wars (ed. Horace White), CHAPTER V (search)
Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (ed. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK VII.
We here enter upon the third division of Pliny's Natural History,
which treats of Zoology, from the 7th to the 11th inclusive. Cuvier
has illustrated this part by many valuable notes, which originally appeared
in Lemaire's 1827 , and were afterwards incorporated,
with some additions, by Ajasson, in his translation of Pliny, published in
1829 ; Ajasson is the editor of this portion of Pliny's Natural History,
in Lemaire's Edition.—B. MAN, HIS BIRTH, HIS ORGANIZATION, AND THE INVENTION OF THE ARTS., CHAP. 46.—THE MISFORTUNES OF AUGUSTUS. (search)
Bibliotheque Classique,
AQUA IULIA
* an aqueduct constructed by Agrippa in 33 B.C. and repaired
by Augustus in 11-4 B.C. (Frontinus, de aquis i. 4, 9, 18, 19; ii. 68, 69, 76,
83, 125; Not. app. ; Pol. Silv. 545, 546).
The springs of the aqua Iulia are situated about half a mile above the
abbey of Grottaferrata. Frontinus says that they were 2 miles to the
right of the twelfth mile of the via Latina, but this is too far. The length
is given as 15,4261 paces. The supply was 1206 quinariae, or 50,043
cubic metres in 24 hours. (162 quinariae more were received from the
Claudia; and 190 given to the Tepula.) Several cippi are known, all of
the time of Augustus.
No. 302 has been found near the springs and 281 not far below the
abbey; while others (157, 156, 154, 153) have come to light at Capannelle
near the seventh mile of the via Latina, before the channel begins to run
above ground upon the arches of the Marcia (CIL vi. 31563 b=xiv. 4278;
NS 1887, 73, 82, 558, 559; 1914, 68; 19
AQUA TEPULA
* an aqueduct constructed in 125 B.C. (Plin. NH xxxvi. 121
wrongly says that it was repaired by Q. Marcius Rex; Frontinus, de aquis
i. 4, 8, 9, 18, 19; ii. 67-69, 82, 125; Not. app.; Pol. Silv. 545, 546). Its
springs were two miles to the right of the tenth mile of the via Latina,
where a tepid spring, the Acqua Preziosa, still exists (PBS v. 222); but
no remains of its original channel have ever been found. In 33 B.C.
Agrippa mixed its water with that of the aqua Iulia; and from that time
onwards its channel entered the city on the arches of the AQUA MARCIA
(q.v.). In Frontinus' time its intake was considered as beginning from
the reservoir of the aqua Iulia, where it received 190 quinariae, then
92 from the Marcia, and 163 from the Anio Novus at the horti Epaphroditiani, making 445 quinariae in all, or 18,467 cubic metres in 24 hours.
See LA 293-314; LR 52, 53.
AQUA VIRGO
* an aqueduct completed by Agrippa on 9th June 19 B.C.
(Ovid, Fast. i. 464; ex Pont. i. 8. 38; Frontinus, de aquis i. 4, 10, 18, 22;
ii. 70,84; Seneca, Ep. 83. 5; Mart. v. 20. 9; vi. 42. 18; vii. 32. 11;
xi. 47. 6; Plin. NH xxxi. 42; xxxvi. 121, who is in error in attributing it
to 33 B.C., and in associating the rivus Herculaneus with it; see AQUA
MARCIA; Stat. Silv. i. 5. 26; Cass. Dio liv. 11; Not. app.; Pol. Silv.
545, 546; Cassiodor. Var. vii. 6; CIL vi. 1252-1254; 31564, 31565; NS
1910, 547).
The springs were situated at the eighth mile of the via Collatina, i.e.
two miles to the left of the eighth mile of the via Praenestina, in agro
Lucullano (PBS i. 139, 143), and produced 2504 quinariae or 103,916
cubic metres in 24 hours. The subterranean course was 12,865 paces long,
and 540 paces were carried on substructions. A girl is said to have shown
the springs to some soldiers, hence the name; the incident was recorded
by a painting in a chapel near the springs (Fron
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
CIRCUS MAXIMUS
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Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
CLOACA MAXIMA
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CLOACA MAXIMA
a sewer constructed, according to tradition, by Tarquinius
Superbus to drain the forum and the valleys between the hills (Liv. i.
38. 6; 56. 2; Dion. iii. 67. 5; iv. 44. 1; Strabo v. 8; Plin. NH xxxvi.
104, who gives an eloquent description of it, lasting as it did almost
unimpaired to his own day, and mentions that the whole system was
inspected by Agrippa during his aedileship (33 B.C.), ut paulo ante retulimus
[this passage is lost] urbe pensili subterque navigata M. Agrippae in
aedilitate post consulatum). Cf. Cass. Dio xlix. 43. Cf. also vir. ill. 8. 3 (Tarquinius Superbus) cloacam maximam fecit, ubi totius populi
viribus usus est, unde illae fossae Quiritium sunt dictae; Georg. Cedren i. 260, ed. Bonn.
kai\ ta\s u(pono/mous ta/frous d) w(=v e)pi\ to\n *ti/berin to\ e\k tw=n stenwpw=n u(/dwr o)xeteu/etai. . . kateskeu/asen;
CIL vi. 7882; faber lectarius ab clo(a)ca maxima.
Even in the time of
Theodoric the cloacae of Rome were objects of wonder (Cassiod. Var.
i
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome,
PORTICUS OCTAVIA
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PORTICUS OCTAVIA
built by Cn. Octavius in 168 B.C. to commemorate
a naval victory over Perseus of Macedonia (Fest. 178; Veil. ii. I). It
stood between the theatre of Pompeius and the circus Flaminius, and was
also called porticus Corinthia from its bronze Corinthian capitals (Plin.
NH xxxiv. 13), perhaps the earliest instance of the use of this order in
Rome (for a possible identification with remains in the Via S. Nicola ai
Cesarini, and representation in the Marble Plan (frg. 140), see BC 1918,
151-155). Augustus restored the building in 33 B.C. (Mon. Anc. iv. 3),
and placed within it the standards which he had taken from the Dalmatians (App. Illyr. 28: Cass. Dio xlix. 43, where there is confusion between this and the porticus Octaviae). It was called multo
amoenissima (Vell. loc. cit.), but has left no traces (HJ 488-489;
AR 1909, 77).