 | Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani - 1888 - 468 pages
...Commentaries " on the subject with the following remark : " During four hundred and forty-one years the Romans satisfied themselves with the use of such...as they could obtain on the spot, from the Tiber, from wells, or from springs. Some of these springs are still held in great consideration, on account... | |
 | 1893 - 916 pages
...writing in the first century after Christ, states as follows: "During four hundred and forty OTX: years the Romans satisfied themselves with the use of such...as they could obtain on the spot, from the Tiber, from wells, or from springs." This period was followed by that of the construction of those wonderful... | |
 | William Warde Fowler - 1909 - 400 pages
...work de Aqueductibus we owe almost all that we know about the Roman water-supply, tells us that for four hundred and .forty-one years after the foundation of the city the Romans contented themselves with such water as they could get from the Tiber, from wells, and from natural... | |
 | Scott Elias William Bedford - 1927 - 954 pages
...work de Aqueductibus we owe almost all that we know about the Roman water-supply, tells us that for four hundred and forty-one years after the foundation of the city the Romans contented themselves with such water as they could get from the Tiber, from wells, and from natural... | |
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... in this, as in so many other matters of urban administration, it was under Augustus that an abundant supply was first procured and maintained by an excellent system of management. Frontinus, to whose work de Aqueductibus we owe almost all that we... 