Mays, L., (Editor), Ancient Water Technologies, Springer, 2010. p. 120.[3]
For the earliest likely development of Roman public bathing, see Fagan, Garrett T., Bathing in Public in the Roman World, University of Michigan Press, 1999, pp. 42−44. google books preview
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Deming, David, "The Aqueducts and Water Supply of Ancient Rome", The Groundwater Association, Online version, Volume 58, issue 1, January/February 2020, 30 October 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.12958 (accessed April 26, 2021)
The relevant MS and print versions of Frontinus (1.3 and 1.78) are uncertain in meaning. See Aicher, Peter J., "Terminal Display Fountains ("Mostre") and the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome", Phoenix, 47 (Winter, 1993), pp. 339–352, Classical Association of Canada, https://doi.org/10.2307/1088729 Stable URL https://www.jstor.https://doi.org/10.2307/1088729 (registration required - accessed April 29, 2021)
Deming, David, "Decay and Renaissance Revival": in The Aqueducts and Water Supply of Ancient Rome, The Groundwater Association, Online version, Volume 58, issue 1, January/February 2020, 30 October 2019 https://doi.org/10.1111/gwat.12958 (accessed April 26, 2021)
The relevant MS and print versions of Frontinus (1.3 and 1.78) are uncertain in meaning. See Aicher, Peter J., "Terminal Display Fountains ("Mostre") and the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome", Phoenix, 47 (Winter, 1993), pp. 339–352, Classical Association of Canada, https://doi.org/10.2307/1088729 Stable URL https://www.jstor.https://doi.org/10.2307/1088729 (registration required - accessed April 29, 2021)
A coin issue of 56 BC supposedly celebrates the event, showing an equestrian statue atop an aqueduct arcade. The moneyer is from the same family as Marcius. See [1]
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The Roman general and hydraulic engineer Frontinus later calculated its delivery at 1825 quinariae (75,537 cubic meters) in 24 hours; see Samuel Ball Platner (1929, as completed and revised by Thomas Ashby): A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome. London: Oxford University. p. 29.
James Grout, Encyclopedia Romana, Lead Poisoning and Rome [2] (accessed 21 May 2013)
The sense of venter as "belly" is apparent in Vitruvius 8.6: "if there be long valleys, and when it [the water] arrives at the bottom, let it be carried level by means of a low substruction as great a distance as possible; this is the part called the venter, by the Greeks koilia; when it arrives at the opposite acclivity, the water therein being but slightly swelled on account of the length of the venter, it may be directed upwards... Over the venter long stand pipes should be placed, by means of which, the violence of the air may escape. Thus, those who have to conduct water through leaden pipes, may by these rules, excellently regulate its descent, its circuit, the venter, and the compression of the air."Vitruvius, 8.6.5-6, trans Gwilt
Columella, De Re Rustica, Book 1, English translation at Loeb Classical Library, 1941 [4]
