History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . losseum of Rome. 2 The ancients did not understand dams, hut they made weirs . . ralnractis aquae cursumtemperare (Pliny, Epist. x. 69). 8 Rome alone had as many as fourteen aqueducts, in all a length of 249 miles, of which fiftymiles were on arches. The three which still remain in use are sufficient to make Rome thecity in all Europe best supplied with water. 4 It has been computed that the Itinerary of Antoninus names 372 great roads, whichunited would have made a road over fifty thousand miles in l
History of Rome, and of the Roman people, from its origin to the invasion of the barbarians . losseum of Rome. 2 The ancients did not understand dams, hut they made weirs . . ralnractis aquae cursumtemperare (Pliny, Epist. x. 69). 8 Rome alone had as many as fourteen aqueducts, in all a length of 249 miles, of which fiftymiles were on arches. The three which still remain in use are sufficient to make Rome thecity in all Europe best supplied with water. 4 It has been computed that the Itinerary of Antoninus names 372 great roads, whichunited would have made a road over fifty thousand miles in length. GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION. 229 his own. Octavius succeeded to all these forces; on the day afterthe battle of Actium he was at the head of seventy-six these he kept twenty-five and dismissed the rest ; Vespasianhad thirty, — a total at which they remained fur a long while. Augustus declared these twenty-five legions permanent, and hestationed them in the provinces of the frontier, under the ordersof legates appointed by himself and dismissihle at will. To provide. AliCH OF THE AQUEDUCT CALLED ANIO NOVUS. their pay he created new imposts, and established by the side ofthe public treasury a military chest, which received and expendedall the money required by the army. According to the list of the forces of the Empire presented tothe Senate by Tiberius, the twenty-five legions were posted inthe following manner, — eight along the Rhine, three in Spain, twoin Africa, two in Egypt, four on the Euphrates, and six on the banksof the Danube or the Adriatic 1 In the time of Dion Cassius, the efforts of the Barbarians being directed upon theDanube, there were no more than four legions on the Rhine. 230 THE EMPIEE AND ROMAN SOCIETY. Thus all the military forces, except the garrison of Rome, wereestablished permanently between the Empire and the Barbarians, faraway from the cities, where discipline becomes relaxed. The camps,the fortified posts which conn
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