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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. Search the whole document.
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144 BC - 140 BC (search for this): entry aqua-marcia
AQUA MARCIA
* constructed in 144-140 B.C. by Q. Marcius Rex, the water
being brought to the Capitol in the latter year. He had been commissioned
by the senate to repair the Appia and Anio (Plin. NH xxxvi. 121, who
wrongly adds the Tepula, constructed in 127 B.C.). The total cost was
180,000,000 sesterces or £1,800,000 sterling (Frontinus, de aquis i. 4, 7, 9,
12, 13, 14, 18, 19; ii. 67, 68, 72, 76, 81, 87, 89, 91-93, 125; Prop. iii.
2. 14; Strabo v. 3. 13. p. 240; Vitruv. viii. 3. 1; Tac. Ann. xiv. 22;
Plin. NH cit. and xxxi. 41; Martial vi. 42. 18; ix. 18. 6; Stat. Silv.
i. 3. 66; 5. 27 ; Not. app.; Pol. Silv. 545, 546; CIL vi. 1245-1251,
31559-31563; xiv. 4074-4078, 4081; Mon. Anc. iv. 11, 12).
Two arches of this aqueduct may be represented on a coin of C. Marcius
Censorinus (circa 87 B.C.; BM Rep. i. 301. 2419), and five arches on coins
of L. Marcius Philippus (ib. 485. 3890-5).
It was repaired by Agrippa in 33 B.C. and again by Augustus, with
the rest of the aqueducts, betwee