[2] Frontinus is usually said to have died A.D. 106.
[3] See notably Plutarch, Vita Anci Marcii; Dionys., Hal. Ant. Rom., lib. iii. c. 679, sect. 9; Strabo, lib. v.; Cassiodorus, lib. vii. cap. 6, &c.
[4] These wells may have included the cisterns for holding rain-water, one of which exists on the Palatine.
[5] In the best text, that of the MS. at Monte Cassino, and in the best printed edition of the text, that of Buecheler (Lipsiæ, 1858), the passage runs “Salubritatem enim ægris corporibus afferre creduntur, sicut Camænarum, et Apollinis, et Juturnæ.” The spring of the Camænæ or Muses referred to, is that which existed in the grove outside the Porta Capena, and beneath the western slope of the Cœlian. There was an Area Apollinis in the same Regio, and possibly there was a spring there; but no writer refers to it. A stream, now subterranean, still exists, and is very copious, running into and through the Cloaca Maxima; it may be seen in the excavations of the Forum Romanum. This subterranean stream comes from three different springs; the source of one is near the Arch of Titus, or more immediately in front of the usual entrance to the Palatine;—a second has its source near the foot of that part of the Quirinal Hill on which the Torre de’ Conti and the Torre delle Milizie are situated; it now emerges in a cellar under a shop behind the church of S. Hadriana;—a third comes from the prison of S. Peter, at the foot of the Capitol. These streams meet near the church of S. Maria Liberatrice and the celebrated three columns of the temple of Castor and Pollux; by their union they formed the lake usually called after Curtius, but by Ovid the Lacus Juturnæ (Ovid. Fasti, l. i. ver. 708). This is not the same as the stream so called on Nolli’s Map. The lake was between that part of the Velabrum of the Palatine on which the church of S. Maria Liberatrice and S. Teodoro are situated, which formed the southern side of the lake, and the Forum Romanum the northern side.
The Aqua Juturnæ, marked 1056 in Nolli’s Map, is the stream that gushes out in great volume from the rock at the foot of the Palatine in the Lupercal of Augustus, which is now in a very ruinous state, the cave being used as a mill-head to a modern mill, between that point and the Cloaca Maxima. This cave is close to the Carceres of the Circus Maximus. The authority for the name of this stream is doubtful; it is now usually called Aqua Argentina, and falls into the Cloaca Maxima, near the church of S. Giorgio in Velabro and the arch erected by the silver-smiths in honour of Septimius Severus.
[6] The Augustan is a name applied also to a branch of the Marcian close to its source, as well as to one supplementary to the Appian within the city.
[7] Frontinus, c. 5.
[8] Ibid.
[9] “Jungitur ei ad Spem [Specum] veterem in confinio hortorum Torquatianorum et Pallantianorum ramus Augustæ, ab Augusto in supplementum ejus additus, ... loco nomen respondenti Gemellarum.” (Ibid.)
[10] “Incipit distribui [Aqua] Appia imo Publicii clivo ad portam Trigeminam.” (Ibid.)