Identifier: studentsmanualof00smit (find matches)
Title: The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Smith, William, 1813-1893, ed
Subjects: Geography, Ancient
Publisher: London, J. Murray
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ian Way crossed the river. XYI. A queducts.—Rome was supplied with water by fourteen aque-ducts, the first of which was constructed in B.C. 313 by the CensorAppius Claudius Csecus, and was named after him Aqua Appia, Of theothers we may notice the Anio Vetus, constructed in 273, which derivedits supply from the Anio above Tibur, and was 43 miles in length:the Aqua Marcia, built in 144 by the Praetor Q. Marcius Rex, and whichwas reputed to bring the most wholesome water of all; the Aqua Julia,built by A^-rippa in his aedileship in 33, a very magnificent work; theAqua Claudia, begun by Caligula^ and dedicated by Claudius; and the 2 It was the favourite bridge for suicides :— Jussit sapienteni paseere barbamAtque a Fabricio non tristem ponte reverti. Hor. Scd. ii. 3, 35. 2 A stone bridge was erected by the side of the old wooden one : it was calledPons J51milius, and is noticed in the following line :— Cum tibi vicinum se prtebeat iEmilius pons ? Jrv. vi, 32. Chap. XXVI. TOWXS. 551
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Insula Tiberina, with the Pons Fabricius and Pons Cestius. Anio Novus, also completed by Claudius, 59 miles in length, and witharches occasionally 109 feet high. The two last were the most giganticof all the Roman aqueducts. § 6, The remaining towns of Latium were as follows :— Ostia, Ostia, was situated at the mouth (as its name implies) of theriver Tiber ^ on its left bank, and was the original port of Rome. It wasfounded by Ancus Martins, and in the time of the Second Punic Warwas important both as a commercial and naval station. It suflPeredseverely in the Civil Wars of Sulla and Marius, and was destroyed b)the latter in B.C. 87. As the coast had advanced cousiderably throughthe alluvial deposit of the Tiber, it was found necessary to make a newport; and this was effected by Claudius, who constructed a basinabout 2 miles X. of Ostia,which he connected with the river by meansof a canal. This was designated Portus Augnsti, and was further en-larged by the addition of an inner doc

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