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Aqueducts of Rome, I. 7–8

Servilius,[1] but on both occasions the influence of Marcius Rex carried the day; and thus the water was brought to the Capitol. The intake of Marcia is at the thirty-sixth milestone on the Valerian Way, on a cross-road, three miles to the right as you come from Rome. But on the Sublacensian Way, which was first paved under the Emperor Nero, at the thirty-eighth milestone, within 200 paces to the left [a view of its source may be seen]. Its waters stand like a tranquil pool, of deep green hue. Its conduit has a length, from the intake to the City, of 61,710½ paces; 54,247½ paces of underground conduit; 7,463 paces on structures above ground, of which, at some distance from the City, in several places where it crosses valleys, there are 463 paces on arches; nearer the City, beginning at the seventh milestone, 528 paces on substructures, and the remaining 6,472 paces on arches.

The Censors, Gnaeus Servilius Caepio and Lucius Cassius Longinus, called Ravilla, in the year 627[2] after the founding of the City, in the consulate of Marcius Plautius Hvpsaeus and Marcus Fulvius Flaccus,[3] had the water called Tepula brought to Rome and to the Capitol, from the estate of Lucullus, which some persons hold to belong to Tusculan[4] territory. The intake of Tepula is at the tenth milestone on the Latin Way, near a cross-road, two miles to the right as you proceed from Rome.… From that point it was conducted in its own[5] channel to the City.

  1. 140 B.C.
  2. 127 B.C.
  3. 125 B.C.
  4. The country around Tusculum (the modern Frascati), a town in Latium about twenty miles south-east of Rome.
  5. Later it flowed in the same channel with Julia. Cf. note on 9.
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