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Aqueducts of Rome, II. 84–87

sixteen public structures[1] 1,380 quinariae. In the amount delivered to public structures are included 460 quinariae for the Euripus[2] alone, to which Virgo itself gave its name.[3]

Alsietina has 392 quinariae. These are all used outside the City, 354 quinariae being furnished in the name of Caesar, and to private parties 138 quinariae.

Outside the City, Claudia and New Anio delivered each from its own channel; inside the City they were mixed together. Claudia discharged outside the City in the name of Caesar 217 quinariae, to private parties 439 quinariae; New Anio delivered in the name of Caesar 728 quinariae. The remaining 3,498 quinariae belonging to these two were distributed inside the City through all the fourteen wards, among ninety-two reservoirs. Of these, there were furnished in the name of Caesar 820 quinariae, to private parties 1,067 quinariae, for public uses 1,014 quinariae,—namely, to nine camps 149 quinariae, to eighteen public structures[4] 374 quinariae, to twelve ornamental fountains 107 quinariae, to two hundred and twenty-six basins 482 quinariae.

This is the schedule of the amount of water as reckoned up to the time of the Emperor Nerva[5] and this is the way in which it was distributed. But now, by the foresight of the most painstaking of sovereigns, whatever was unlawfully drawn by the water-men, or was wasted as the result of negligence, has been added to our supply;

  1. The most important of these were the Thermae of Agrippa.
  2. The name given to an artificial channel running through the Gardens of Agrippa on the Campus Martius and emptying into the Tiber.
  3. This allusion is not clear.
  4. Among them the Baths of Nero.
  5. The Emperor Trajan is meant.
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