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Aqua Claudia (Latin, literally "the Claudian
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....
 water") was 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 Anio Novus
Anio Novus

Anio Novus is an aqueduct, which, like the Aqua Claudia, was begun by Caligula in 38#Notes AD and completed in 52 AD by Claudius, who dedicated them both on August 1....
 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....
 A.D. and completed by Claudius in 52
52

Year 52 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar....
¹. Its main springs, the Caeruleus and Curtius, were situated 300 paces to the left of the thirty-eighth milestone 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....
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Aqua Claudia (Latin, literally "the Claudian
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....
 water") was 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 Anio Novus
Anio Novus

Anio Novus is an aqueduct, which, like the Aqua Claudia, was begun by Caligula in 38#Notes AD and completed in 52 AD by Claudius, who dedicated them both on August 1....
 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....
 A.D. and completed by Claudius in 52
52

Year 52 was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar....
¹. Its main springs, the Caeruleus and Curtius, were situated 300 paces to the left of the thirty-eighth milestone 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....
. After being in use for ten years, the supply failed, and was interrupted for nine years, until Vespasian
Vespasian

Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Vespasian , was a Roman Emperor who reigned from 69 A.D. until his death in 79 A.D. Vespasian was the founder of the short lived Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 A.D....
 restored it in 71
71

Year 71 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar....
 and ten years later Titus
Titus

Titus Flavius Vespasianus, commonly known as Titus , was a Roman Emperor who briefly reigned from 79 until his death in 81. Titus was the second emperor of the Flavian dynasty, which ruled the Roman Empire between 69 and 96, encompassing the reigns of Titus's father Vespasian , Titus himself and his younger brother Domitian ....
 once more.

Structure

The channel length was 45-46 miles (ca. 69 km, most of which was underground) in different times and volume at the springs was 191,190 cubic metres in 24 hours. After building the Arcus Neroniani 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....
, one of the branches of the Aqua Claudia, the aqueduct could provide all 14 Roman districts with water. Directly after its filtering tank, near the seventh mile 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 finally emerged on to arches, which increase in height as the ground falls towards the city. It is also one of the two ancient aqueducts that flowed through the Porta Maggiore
Porta Maggiore

The Porta Maggiore , or Porta Prenestina, is one of the eastern gates in the ancient but well-preserved 3rd century Aurelian Walls of Rome.Through the gate ran two ancient roads: the Via Praenestina and the Via Labicana....
, the other being the Anio Novus. It is described in some detail by Frontinus in his work published in the later first century, De Aqueductae.

Note

1- Frontius (Aq. 1.13)

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See also

  • Ancient Roman technology
  • 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....