the daughter of Frontimis; its date is supposed to be about 84. Another inscription near the ancient Vetera Castra[1] is dedicated to Jupiter, Juno and Minerva in recognition of the recovery from illness of Sextus Julius Frontinus; and there is also a lead pipe, said to have been found near the modern Via Tiburtina, inscribed SEXTIULIFRONTINI.
Pliny[2] has preserved for us a saying of Frontinus, "Remembrance will endure if the life shall have merited it," and the truth of the words is most aptly exemplified in the case of their author. Rich and valuable as is his treatise, the De Aquis, in facts relating to the administration of ancient aqueducts, it is the personalitv of the writer that one loves to contemplate, his sturdy honesty, his conscientious devotion to the duties of his office, his patient attention to details, his loyal attachment to the sovereign whom he delighted to serve, his willing labours in behalf of the people whose convenience, comfort and safety he aimed to promote. We sympathize with him in his proud boast[3] that by his reforms he has not only made the city cleaner, but the air purer, and has removed the causes of pestilence that had formerly given the city such a bad repute; and we can easily pardon the Roman Philistinism with which, after enumerating the lengths and courses of the several aqueducts, he inquires in a burst of enthusiasm,[4] "Who will venture to com-
- ↑ A Roman camp on the Rhine, now Birten or Xanthen.
- ↑ Epist. IX. xix. 1, 6: addis etiam melius rectiusque Frontinum, quod vetuerit omnino monumentum sibi fieri. Vetuit exstrui momumentum; sed quibus verbis? "Impensa monumenti supervacua est; memoria nostri durabit, si vita meruimus.
- ↑ Cf. De Aquis, 88, p. 417.
- ↑ Cf. De Aquis, 16, p. 357.
