Out of the water, under the brink,
Than men therof taketh the fevere,
That never after mai he kever (recover);
And who that n’el nought leve (believe) me,
Wite (know, inquire) al pilgrimes that ther hath be;
For thai can tell yow, I wis,
Of that dragoun how it is.”
(Weber, “Metrical Romances,” &c., vol. iii.
p. 315. Edinburgh, 1810, 12mo.)
[175] The fragment of an inscription relating to this aqueduct was found near Gabii, and is described by E. Q. Visconti in his Monumenti Gabini, Roma, 1797, 8vo. maj., p. 14.
IMP. CAESAR DIVI TRAiani
(Parthici filius Trajanus Hadrianus)
AVG. PONTIF[ex Maximus]
AQVAE DVCTVM GABINIS . . .
QVAM . . . . .