 But if any one will carefully calculate the quantity of the public supply of water, for baths, reservoirs, houses, trenches (euripi), gardens, and surbnrban villas , and, along the distance which it traverses, the arches built, the mountains perforated,...  A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - Σελίδα 147των William Smith - 1890 - 2125 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | Greek antiquities - 1848 - 1322 σελίδες
...llomnn aqueduct could not easily be given. (See fUustraiiont of the Cretan Aqueduct, by FB Tower, 1843.) The detailed description of the arrangements of the...principal aqueducts by which water was conveyed to Rome across the Campagna. They were fourteen in number ; and only four of them belong to the time of... | |
 | William Smith - 1870 - 1312 σελίδες
...the public supply of water, for baths, reservoirs, houses, trenches (euripi\ gardens, and suburban villas ; and, along the distance which it traverses,...valleys levelled ; he will confess that there never was any thing more wonderful in the whole world." But why did the Romans waste so much money and labour... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1871 - 330 σελίδες
...the public supply of water, for baths, reservoirs, houses, trenches (euripi), gardens, and suburban villas ; and, along the distance which it traverses,...was anything more wonderful in the whole world." The first aqueduct, according to Frontinus, was constructed in the year BC 313. In the course of time there... | |
 | Robert Fowler Leighton - 1878 - 592 σελίδες
...quantity of the public supply of water, for baths, reservoirs, houses, trenches, gardens, and suburban villas ; and, along the distance which it traverses, the arches built, the mountains perforated, the 1 Thjse were formed of stone or brick and were arched in order to keep the water free from impurities;... | |
 | Robert Fowler Leighton - 1885 - 596 σελίδες
...144, and aqua Tenula. B. c. 125. DC ne::., Hi Its CO 0 ROMAtf SUPREMACY 1$ ITALY. valleys leveled, be will confess that there never was anything more wonderful in the whole world." 7. The Military System. — The new military system, introduced probably by Camillus, has already been... | |
 | John Bagnell Bury - 1893 - 676 σελίδες
...quantity of the public supply of water for baths, reservoirs, houses, trenches, gardens, and suburban villas, and, along the distance which it traverses,...never was anything more wonderful in the whole world." It has been estimated that the water supplied by these nine aqueducts was "equal to that carried down... | |
 | 1899 - 410 σελίδες
...quantity of the public supply of water for baths, reservoirs, houses, trenches, gardens and suburban villas, and along the distance which it traverses,...arches built, the mountains perforated, the valleys leveled, he will confess that there never was anything more wonderful in the whole world." Their public... | |
 | E. Venturini - 1926 - 268 σελίδες
...quantity of the public supply of water for baths, reservoirs, houses, trenches, gardens and suburban villas, and, along the distance which it traverses, the arches built, the mountains perforated, he will confess that there never was anything more wonderful in the whole world. VATICAN: LIBRARY:... | |
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