The Cloaca Maxima (The Giant Sewer), which burrows beneath the Roman Forum and the site of an ancient livestock market before emptying into the Tiber River, predates the Roman Empire. The mile-long ...
WILL you pardon me for asking a question which probably I ought to be able to answer myself? Mr. Corfield, in his interesting comparison of the hygienic performances of the ancients and ourselves, ...
YOUR correspondent “Ignoramus” will find some account of the drainage of Rome in Pliny (“Hist. Nat.” xxxvi. 15, s. 24). He will also find further particulars in Livy (i. 38) and in Ulpian (”Dig.” 43, ...
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