 | George Clarke (F.S.A.) - 1832 - 390 pages
...fountains. It is calculated by M. Rendelet that the nine aqueducts described by Frontinus furnished Rome with a supply of water equal to that carried down...deep, flowing at the rate of thirty inches a second. This would be upwards of one million and a half cubic feet of water every hour. We may well agree with... | |
 | G. Clarke - 1836 - 394 pages
...fountains. It is calculated by M. Rendelet that the nine aqueducts described by Frontinus furnished Rome with a supply of water equal to that carried down...deep, flowing at the rate of thirty inches a second. This would be upwards of one million and a half cubic feet of water every hour. We may well agree with... | |
 | William Clarke (architect.) - 1836 - 388 pages
...fountains. It is calculated by M. Rendelet that the nine aqueducts described by Frontinus furnished Rome, with a supply of water equal to that carried down...deep, flowing at the rate of thirty inches a second. This would be upwards of one million and a half cubic feet of water every hour. We may well agree with... | |
 | William Smith - 1859 - 1334 pages
...aed fama celebrata opera Graecontm." It has been calculated that these nine aqueducts famished Rome with a supply of water equal to that carried down by a river thirty feet broad by fix deep, flowing at the rate of thirty inches a second. There was also another aqueduct, not AQCAKDUCTUS.... | |
 | Hodder Michael Westropp - 1867 - 508 pages
...Novus, the lower the Aqua Claudia. It has been calculated that these nine aqueducts furnished Rome with a supply of water equal to that carried down...deep, flowing at the rate of thirty inches a second. These magnificent and useful works of the ancient Romans were not confined to the capital alone. Constructions... | |
 | William Smith - 1870 - 1312 pages
...sed fama celebrata opera Graecorum.^ It has been calculated that these nine aqueducts furnished Rome with a supply of water equal to that carried down...flowing at the rate of thirty inches a second. There was also another aqueduct, not reckoned with the nine, because its waters were no longer brought all... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1871 - 330 pages
...has been calculated that the volume of the water with which they supplied Rome was equal to that of a river thirty feet broad by six deep, flowing at the rate of thirty inches a second. 10. The Aqua Crabrn was at one time brought into the Circus Maximus ; but its water was of so inferior... | |
 | William Smith - 1873 - 1320 pages
...sal fuma celeltrala opera Graecorum." It has been calculated that these nine aqueducts furnished Rome with a supply of water equal to that carried down...by six deep, flowing at the rate of thirty inches a Kcoud. There was also another aqueduct, not reckoned with the nine, because its waters were no longer... | |
 | William Smith - 1890 - 1072 pages
...calculated that these nine aqueducts furnished Rome with a supply of water equal to that carried down by » river thirty feet broad by six deep, flowing at the rate of thirty inches a second. The total irater supplyof Rome has been estimated at 332,306,624 gallons a day, or, taking the population... | |
 | John Bagnell Bury - 1893 - 676 pages
...wonderful in the whole world." It has been estimated that the water supplied by these nine aqueducts was "equal to that carried down by a river, thirty feet...deep, flowing at the rate of thirty inches a second," and that if the population of Rome was a million, the supply was equivalent to 332 gallons a head daily.*... | |
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... have said, could not be inserted without special permission from the emperor. Those whose means or interest were insufficient to obtain a private pipe, were obliged to fetch water from the public fountains. It is calculated by M. Rendelet that the... 