A dictionary of Greek and Roman . onedthe praetor Marcius to repair the old aqueducts,and to build a third, which was named after writers have pretended that the originalconstruction of this aqueduct is to be ascribed toAncus Marcius, alleging a passage of Pliny (H. 3. s. 24), and a medal of the Marcian gens,family Philippus, which bears on the obverse ahead with the legend Ancvs, and on the reversea representation of an aqueduct, with the lettersAqvajr between the arches, supporting anequestrian statue with the legend Phillippvs :but those who know any thing of
A dictionary of Greek and Roman . onedthe praetor Marcius to repair the old aqueducts,and to build a third, which was named after writers have pretended that the originalconstruction of this aqueduct is to be ascribed toAncus Marcius, alleging a passage of Pliny (H. 3. s. 24), and a medal of the Marcian gens,family Philippus, which bears on the obverse ahead with the legend Ancvs, and on the reversea representation of an aqueduct, with the lettersAqvajr between the arches, supporting anequestrian statue with the legend Phillippvs :but those who know any thing of the history ofRoman family records will understand that thismedal bears no evidence to the point in question,and is simply a perpetuation of two of the greatestdistinctions of the Marcia ge?is, their alleged de-scent from Ancus, and the aqueduct which boretheir name ; and Plinys opinion is simply one ofhis ludicrous blunders, arising probably from hisconfounding Marcius Rex with the king AncusMarcius. (Eckhel, Doctr. Num. Vet. vol. v. p. 248.). This aqueduct commenced at the side of theVia Valeria, thirty-six miles from Rome ; its was 61,71 OA passus, of which only 7463were above ground ; namely, 528 on solid sub-structions, and 6935 on arches. It was highenough to supply water to the summit of theCapitoline Mount. It was repaired by Agrippain his aedileship, 33 (see below, No. 5.), andthe volume of its water was increased by Au-gustus, by means of the water of a spring 800passus from it: the short aqueduct which con-veyed this water was called the Aqua Augusta,but is never enumerated as a distinct states that the water of the Aqua Marciawas the coldest and most wholesome of all whichwas brought to Rome ; and Vitruvius and otherwriters refer to the excellence of the water as being-proverbial. Several arches of the Aqua Marciaare still standing. (Frontin. 12 ; Plin. s. 24, who differs from Frontinus in some of thedetails ; Stra
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