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
It was then brought to the bank or _mœnia_ on which the wall of Aurelian
was afterwards built near the Porta Salaria, and may be traced upon or in
that bank under the present wall of Rome for about a mile. For a short
distance, where this ground is low, it was carried on an arcade, of which
there are remains under the wall built upon it. After this it goes on as
far as the garden of the Villa Borghese and the French Academy, under
which it now passes through the Pincian Hill.
[98]
TI . CLAVDIVS . DRVSI . F. AVG. GERMAN. PONT.
MAX. TRIBVNIC. POT. V. IMP. IX. P.P. COS. III.
DESIG. IIII. ARCVS . DVCTVS . AQVÆ . VIRGI
NIS . DISTVRBATOS . PER . C. CÆSAREM . A. FVN
DAMENTIS . NOVOS . FECIT . AC . RESTITVIT
This inscription was erected A.D. 46.
[99] There are remains of the Septa in the cellars under the houses on
the west side of the Corso, in its lower part. These remains of the
arcade are now chiefly underground, owing to the filling up of the great
foss, called in this part Via Lata, because the wide foss under part of
the Quirinal and of the Capitol had at one time been made into a wide
street or place, on the eastern side of which is situated the Church of
the “SS. Apostoli in Via Lata” and that of S. Maria in Via Lata on the
western side, at the north-west corner. The great public building called
the Septa went down the western side of this wide place from S. Maria to
the Venetian Palace, with an arcade towards the street or place, of which
many of the arches remain in the cellars. These arches under the church
of S. Maria are absurdly called the house of S. Paul. They are visible
also under the Palazzo Doria to the south of that church, and in other
cellars.
[100] “Idem et Virginem adduxit ab octavi lapidis diverticulo duobus
millibus pass. Prænestina Via.
“Juxta est Herculaneus rivus quem refugiens Virginis nomen obtinuit.”
(Plinii Nat. Hist., lib. xxxi. c. iii. § 25.)
[101] Of this stream and its introduction into Rome in the twelfth
century, an account will be found in the second part of this chapter.
Frontinus, c. 15 and 19.
[102] Frontinus, c. 11.
[103] Ibid., c. 18.
[104] Ibid., c. 71.
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