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Anio Novus (named after a river Anio at the forty-second mile of the Via Sublacensis
Via Sublacensis

The Via Sublacensis was a Roman road constructed to connect Nero's palace in present-day Subiaco, Italy to Rome, splitting off from the Via Valeria near Varia , about 10 km northeast of Tivoli, Italy....
 from which the water was taken originally) is an aqueduct
Aqueduct

File:Tomar December 2008-4.jpgAn aqueduct is a water supply or navigable canal constructed to convey water. In modern engineering, the term is used for any system of pipes, ditches, canals, tunnels, and other structures used for this purpose....
, which, like the Aqua Claudia
Aqua Claudia

Aqua Claudia was an aqueduct which like the Anio Novus was begun by Caligula in 38 A.D. and completed by Claudius in 52#Notes. Its main springs, the Caeruleus and Curtius, were situated 300 paces to the left of the thirty-eighth milestone of the Via Sublacensis....
, was begun by Caligula
Caligula

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , more commonly known by his nickname Caligula , was the third Roman Emperor, reigning from 16 March 37 until his assassination on 24 January 41....
 in 38
38

Year 38 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar....
¹ AD and completed in 52
52

Year 52 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar....
 AD by Claudius
Claudius

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
, who dedicated them both on August 1.

as the highest in level of all the aqueducts that came into the city.






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Anio Novus (named after a river Anio at the forty-second mile of the Via Sublacensis
Via Sublacensis

The Via Sublacensis was a Roman road constructed to connect Nero's palace in present-day Subiaco, Italy to Rome, splitting off from the Via Valeria near Varia , about 10 km northeast of Tivoli, Italy....
 from which the water was taken originally) is an aqueduct
Aqueduct

File:Tomar December 2008-4.jpgAn aqueduct is a water supply or navigable canal constructed to convey water. In modern engineering, the term is used for any system of pipes, ditches, canals, tunnels, and other structures used for this purpose....
, which, like the Aqua Claudia
Aqua Claudia

Aqua Claudia was an aqueduct which like the Anio Novus was begun by Caligula in 38 A.D. and completed by Claudius in 52#Notes. Its main springs, the Caeruleus and Curtius, were situated 300 paces to the left of the thirty-eighth milestone of the Via Sublacensis....
, was begun by Caligula
Caligula

Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , more commonly known by his nickname Caligula , was the third Roman Emperor, reigning from 16 March 37 until his assassination on 24 January 41....
 in 38
38

Year 38 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar....
¹ AD and completed in 52
52

Year 52 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar....
 AD by Claudius
Claudius

Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus or Claudius I was the fourth Roman Emperor, a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, ruling from January 24, AD 41 to his death in AD 54....
, who dedicated them both on August 1.

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It was the highest in level of all the aqueducts that came into the city. After the water was apt to be turbid, Trajan
Trajan

Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus, commonly known as Trajan , was a Roman Emperors who reigned from 98 until his death in 117. Born Marcus Ulpius Traianus into a nonpatrician family in the Hispania Baetica province , Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian, serving as a general in the Roman army along the Limes G...
 made use of the two uppermost of the three lakes formed by Nero
Nero

Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus , born Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus, also called Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus, was the fifth and final Roman emperor of the Julio-Claudian dynasty....
 for the adornment of his villa at Subiaco
Subiaco

Subiaco may refer to:*Subiaco, Italy, site of St. Benedict's first monastery*Subiaco, Western Australia, suburb of Perth*City of Subiaco, local government municipality in Perth, Western Australia centred on the suburb of the same name...
 thus lengthening the aqueduct to 58 miles and 700 paces². The lakes were created by dam
Dam

A dam is a barrier that Reservoirs surface water or underground streams. Dams generally serve the primary purpose of retaining water, while other structures such as floodgates, levees, and Dike are used to manage or prevent water flow into specific land regions....
s in the river, and were the tallest of any built by the Romans. They were swept away by the river in the Medieval period. Its volume at the intake was 196,627 cubic metres in 24 hours. From its filtering tank near the seventh milestone of the Via Latina
Via Latina

The Via Latina was a Roman road of Italy, running southeast from Rome for about 200 kilometers.It led from the Porta Latina to the pass of Mons Algidus, so important in the early military history of Rome; and it must have preceded the Via Appia as a route to Campania, in as much as the Latin colony at Cales was founded in 334 BC and must...
 it was carried on the lofty arches of the Aqua Claudia, in a channel immediately superposed on the latter. Before the reforms the aqueduct was freely used to supply the deficiencies (largely due to dishonesty) of other aqueducts, and, being turbid, rendered them impure. It is described in some detail by Frontinus in his work published in the later first century, De aquaeductu
De aquaeductu

is a two-book official report given to the emperor on the state of the aqueducts of Rome, and was written by Julius Sextus Frontinus at the end of the first century AD....
.

See also

  • Aqueducts
  • Aqueducts of Rome
    Aqueducts of Rome

    This is a list of aqueducts in Rome listed in chronological order of their construction....
  • De aquaeductu
    De aquaeductu

    is a two-book official report given to the emperor on the state of the aqueducts of Rome, and was written by Julius Sextus Frontinus at the end of the first century AD....
  • Frontinus
  • List of aqueducts in the city of Rome
    List of aqueducts in the city of Rome

    This page lists ancient Roman aqueducts in the city of Rome....
  • List of aqueducts in the Roman Empire
    List of aqueducts in the Roman Empire

    This is a list of Roman aqueducts outside the city of Rome itself, sorted by modern country....
  • List of Roman aqueducts by date
  • Roman technology
    Roman technology

    Roman technology is the engineering practice which supported Roman civilization and made the expansion of Roman commerce and Roman military possible over nearly a thousand years....
  • Roman engineering
    Roman engineering

    The Roman Empire are generally famous for their advanced engineering accomplishments, although some of their own inventions were improvements on older ideas, concepts and inventions....


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