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Title: History of Rome and the Popes in the Middle Ages
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Grisar, Hartmann, 1845-1932
Subjects: Papacy
Publisher: London, Paul
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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a Antoniniana, brought by the EmperAntoninus Caracalla to his famous baths on the Appian Wcis another instance in point. 1 Frontinus, De aquaeductibus urbis Romae, I., c. 10: (Agrippa) in agro Lucullcollect am Romam perduxit. . . . Concipitur Virgo via collatina ad miliarium octavuCp. FABRETTI, De aquis et aquaeductibus veteris Romae, 2. ed., PL I., III. and p. Iand especially LANCIANI: / comme?itarii di Frontino intor?io le acque, &c. (p. 121). 2 FRONTINUS, De aquaeductibus, I., c. 4 ff.: concipitur supra Tibur viccsimo miluextraportain . . . Cp. FRONTINUS, 2, c. 66, 80, 90 ff. Note to III. 39.—New photograph by Commendatore Carlo Tenerani. At the ciof the arch of Augustus is the bulls head (cp. 111. 15). Above the latter is th<walled up) passage or specus of the Aqua Marcia. Above this are the two open,the Tepula and Julia. Above the whole are the mediaeval battlements. To tinover the arch of Marcia is a flanking-tower of the Emperor Honorius with a more reJJsuperstructure.
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111. 39.—The Tiburtine Gate (Porta S. Lorenzo) with the Ihree Aqueducts. (Seen from within.) No. 128) THE BATHS 181 The supply in the main aqueducts was usually so copiousthat such diversions could take place on a large scale. At thesame time it would be hopeless to seek, whether within or with-out Rome, for the conduit into which the Greek Procopiusgravely states that a man could enter on horseback, so greatwas its height inside. Any one viewing the present openingsinto the largest aqueducts of Rome or the Campagna can seethat a man indeed might make his way through some of them ;

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