Owing to some intrigue, however, of Appius, Plautius resigned his station before the expiration of two years, and Appius alone, therefore, enjoyed the honor of giving his name to the aqueduct, and to another noble work, which, by prolonging his censorship unlawfully, and through various artifices, he was enabled to complete, the Via Appia, from Rome to Capua. The Aqua Appia had its source in the Lucullan territory, at about 700 paces to the left of the Via Prcenestina, between the seventh arid eighth mile stone, and it ended, after

making a circuit of eleven miles and 190 paces, at the Salinae, near the Porta Trigemina, whence it was distributed about the Aventine Hill. It was all subterranean " the moist except 60 paces, which was carried on arches over the Porta Capena* Capena," as Juvenal thence calls it. It was subsequently supplied by an additional stream,

* Juvenal Sat. iii.. 11.

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conveyed by Augustus, and called the Gemellce, because of the junction. This began at the sixth mile -stone along the Via Prsenestina, and the junction took place near the Horti

Torqiiatieni* It is bel ieved no traces of this aqueduct now exist, though Piranesi thought he discovered some conduits under the Aventine Hill, which might have belonged to it Forty years after the Aqua Appia was established, in the 481st year of the city, the Censor, Manlius Curius Dentatus, began the aqueduct, which afterwards was known as the Anio Vetus. The expense of this great work was defrayed out of the spoils of the Pyrrhic war. The Senate created Decemvirs to complete the aqueduct, naming Curius who had commenced it, and as his colleague, Fabius Flaccus. Curius died soon after the appointment, and the glory of terminating the work accrued to Fabius alone. The Anio Vetus began above Tivoli, at a distance of 20 miles from Rome, and before it reached the city, ithad run by many turnings, in order to preserve the level, a course of 43 miles.