Note 31 — Chapter IV · PART I. THE AQUEDUCTS.

The passage is corrupt, as will be explained. The following is the reading, as given by Buecheler, whose text is an exact copy of the best manuscript, that of Monte Cassino:—“Anio Vetus citra quartum milliarium infra Novum, qui a via Latina in Lavicanam inter arcus trajicit, et ibi piscinam habet. Inde intra secundum milliarium partem dat in specum, qui vocatur Octavianus, et pervenit in regionem viæ Novæ ad hortos Asinianos, unde per illum tractum distribuitur. Rectus vero ductus, secundum Spem (Specum) veniens intra portam Exquilinam, in altos rivos per urbem deducitur.” (Frontin., c. 21.) Infra Novum, therefore, signifies within the fourth mile on the Via Nova, the New Road of the time of Frontinus, the Via Appia Nova (?).