The archæology of Rome, Part 8 : $b The aqueductsParker, John Henry
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The archæology of Rome, Part 8 : $b The aqueducts
Parker, John Henry
Rome -- Antiquities
[82] It is probably the case that part of this supply was brought in
metal pipes only, from the evidence of this inscription. A stone _specus_
passes under the wall on the bank round three sides of the camp on the
exterior of the walls, and is plainly visible at the north-east corner;
but this agrees with the general character of the Anio Vetus, and was
probably a branch from that aqueduct.
The inscription is as follows:—
IMP. CAES. M. OPELLI . SEVERI . MACRINI
. AVG
M. OPELLI . SEVERI . DIADVMENIANI .
CAES. PRINC. IV
CASTRIS . PRAETORI
TERENTIVS . CASSANDER . FECIT
[83] “[Honorius, Papa III.] Ecclesiam Sanctæ Bibianæ juxta formas aquæ
Martiæ cum Monasterio Monialium restituit.” (Ciaconi, Vitæ Pontif.
Roman., &c., vol. ii. col. 46, C.)
[84] An inscription recording repairs by Agrippa is said by Ligorio to
have been found on a _cippus_ of travertine at the third mile on the
Via Latina. The genuineness of this is doubted by Fabretti, because the
number of miles does not agree; but it seems more probable that this was
an error in transcribing, than that the inscription should be forged
without any motive for doing so:—
AQVAE . IVLIAE . TEPVLAE.
IMP. CAES. DIVI . IVLI . F.
AVGVSTVS . PONTIF.
MAX. COS. X̅I̅I̅. TRIB. POT.
X̅I̅X̅. IMP. X̅I̅I̅I̅. CVRANTE
M. VIPSAN . AGRIPPA .
AEDIL . CVRVL . L. C. C.
P. MILL. X.
Another inscription, also recording repairs of the time of Augustus, was
found by Fabretti himself, in the Vinea Bartholomæi Virginii, two miles
from the Porta Maggiore, between the ruins of the arcades of the Marcian
and Claudian, and was preserved in a private museum:
IVL. TEP. MAR.
IMP. CAESAR.
DIVI . F.
AVGVSTVS.
EX. S. C.
LXIII.
P. CCXI.
[85] _Marrana_ is a general name for a running stream in the Campagna
round Rome, probably a provincial word; but it is also the special name
of this particular stream coming from Marino.
[86] “Tepula concipitur via Latina ad decimum milliarium, diverticulo
euntibus ab Roma dextrorsus millium passuum duum ... inde suo rivo in
urbem perducebatur.” (Frontinus, c. 8.)
[87] It is the building pointed out in guide-books as “The House of
Cicero,” although there does not appear to be any historical ground for
this name.
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