The archæology of Rome, Part 8

by John Henry Parker

[136] Gruter, Inscriptiones, p. clv. 4.

[137] Probably the text of Frontinus here is corrupt, because the Piscina Limaria and the specus of Claudius are at the forty-sixth mile on the Via Sublacensis, “ad milliarium quadragesimum secundum,” for “Ad milliarium quadragesimum sextum.”

[138] Dr. Fabio Gori, who is a native of Subiaco, claims the credit of being the first person to point out what this great work of Trajan really was. He also states that the Rivus Herculaneus, rising at thirty-eight miles on the Via Sublacensis, must have been a clear stream, which he finds on the left side of the river, opposite to the lake of S. Lucia and to this source of the aqueduct of the Claudia, called Acqua dell’ Arco, or water of the aqueduct.

[139] Frontinus, c. 72.

[140] The piscina made in one of the towers in the wall at the point where it enters Rome, has the four chambers visible, the inner wall of the tower having been destroyed.

[141] Inscriptions on the Porta Maggiore:—

TI . CLAVDIVS DRVSI F. CAISAR AVGVSTVS
GERMANICVS PONTIF MAXIM
TRIBVNICIA POTESTATE X̅I̅I̅. COS. V.
IMPERATOR X̅X̅V̅I̅I̅. PATER PATRIÆ
AQVAS . CLAVDIAM EX FONTIBVS . QVI
VOCABANTVR CAERVLEVS ET CVRTIVS
. A MILLIARIO X̅X̅X̅X̅V̅.

ITEM ANIENEM NOVAM A. MILLIARIO
L̅X̅I̅I̅. SVA IMPENSA IN VRBEM PERDVCENDAS
CVRAVIT.

IMP . CAESAR . VESPASIANVS AVGVST .
PONTIF . MAX . TRIB. POT. I̅I̅. IMP.
V̅I̅. COS. I̅I̅I̅. DESIG. I̅I̅I̅I̅. P.P

AQVAS CVRTIAM ET CAERVLEAM PERDVCTAS
A DIVO CLAVDIO . ET POSTEA
INTERMISSAS DILAPSASQVE