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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 7 7 Browse Search
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome 2 2 Browse Search
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Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), G. (search)
pigram: — Cease now your work, ye maids, ye who labored in the mill; sleep now, and let the birds sing to the ruddy morning, for Ceres has commanded the waternymphs to perform your task; these, obedient to her call, throw themselves on the wheel, force round the axle-tree, and by these means the heavy mill. Palladius advises the erection of water-mills on estates where streams afford the opportunity of saving manual labor in grinding grain. Public mills were established in Rome A. D. 398, and were driven by the surplus of water brought to Rome by her splendid aqueducts. They were principally at the foot of Mount Janiculum. In the sixth century (A. D. 536), when Vitiges, king of the Goths, harassed Rome, and stopped the water of the fourteen aqueducts which entered the city, the mills were stopped thereby, and great distress was the consequence. The grand old soldier Belisarius moored boats in the current, and provided them with paddle-wheels, by which the mills were driv
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight), W. (search)
. C., describes their construction as similar to the tympanum, with circumferential floats or paddles which were acted upon by the force of the stream, driving the wheel round. On the axis of the water-wheel was another wheel with cogs, which meshed into the cogs of a horizontal wheel, on the upper head of whose axis was a tenon inserted in the millstone. Pliny refers to water-mills (died A. D. 79). Public water-mills were established in Rome in the time of Honorius and Arcadius (A. D. 398). They were driven by the water of the aqueducts. Backus water-motor. When the Goth Vitiges besieged Rome, A. D. 555, he caused the water-supply of the fourteen aqueducts to be cut off, and reduced the people to great straits for meal. Procopius says that below the bridge which reaches the walls of the Janiculum. Belisarius extended ropes, well fastened and stretching across the river. secured on both banks; to these he moored two boats of equal size, separated by a small space in w