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NA). In 15 A.D. a great inundation occurred, and the cura riparum was instituted by Tiberius (Tac. Ann. i. 76; Cass. Dio lvii. 4 ; Suet. Aug. 37 is mistaken; cf. Mommsen, RGDA2 29; BC 1894, 254-6; CIL p. 3109). The curatores, who were five in number, replaced several of the earlier cippi by new ones, adding to the original inscription the words curatores riparum qui primi fuerunt ex senatus consulto restituerunt. Their authority extended as far as Ostia, where one of their cippi and one of 24-37 A.D. have been found (NS 1921, 258-262; cf. CIL xiv. 192; YW 1922-3, 106). A little later on other curatores restored a part of the bank near the pons Cestius (CIL vi. 31543), and set up other cippi, three of which remain (31544 a-c -- before 24 A.D.). From the reign of Claudius we have a cippus of the curatores who 'ripam cippis positis terminaverunt a Trigario ad pontem Agrippae' (31545), while under Vespasian and afterwards only a single curator is named, it being doubtful whether one fu