Agrippa, under the consulate of Silius and Galerius Trachalus,[1] Albius Crispus; to Crispus, under the third consulate of Vespasian, and that of Cocceius Nerva,[2] Pompeius Silvanus; to Silvanus, under the second consulate of Domitian and that of Valerius Messalinus,[3] Tampius Flavianus; to Flavianus, under the fifth consulate of Vespasian, and the third of Titus,[4] Acilius Aviola. After Aviola, under the third consulate of the Emperor Nerva, and the third of Verginius Rufus,[5] the office was transferred to me.
I will now set down what the water-commissioner must observe, being the laws and Senate enactments which serve to determine his procedure. As concerns the draft of water by private consumers, it is to be noted: No one shall draw water without an authorisation from Caesar, that is, no one shall draw water from the public supply without a licence, and no one shall draw more than has been granted. By this means, we shall make it possible that the quantity of water, which has been regained, as we have said, may be distributed to new fountains and may be used for new grants from the sovereign. But in both cases it will be necessary to exert great resistance to manifold forms of fraud. Frequent rounds must be made of channels of the aqueducts outside the City, and with great care, to check up the granted quantities. The same must be done in case of the reservoirs and public fountains, that the water may flow without interruption, day and night. For this the commissioner has been directed to provide, by a resolution of the Senate, the language of which is as follows:
"The consuls, Quintus Aelius Tubero and Paulus Fabius Maximus, having made a report upon the
