Long ago," com- " we of Rome have lost the and plains this writer, pleasure commodity of those rills, through the ambition and avarice of some great men, who have turned away the waters from the city where they yielded a pu bl ic benefit to the commonwealth, and diverted them for their own profit and delight, into their manors and houses, to irrigate their gardens, and to other uses." Nineteen years after the Marcian, or in the year of Rome 627, the Aqua Tepula was introduced by the Censors, Cn. Servilius Caepio, and L. Crassus Longinus, surnamed

territory. To Ravilla. It took its rise in the Lucullan, or, as some called it, the Tusculan arrive at its source, it was necessary to go ten miles in the Via Latina, and then turn off to the right two miles. The name, Tepula, is conjectured, by some, to have arisen from the water being rather warm at the spring, as if " tepida." This stream was conducted over the Marcian arches, as subsequently was another named Julia, in honor of Augustus, and of which Agrippa, in his eedileship, anno urbis, 719, discovered the spring and conducted it to Rome. The length of this aqueduct was fifteen miles, 427 paces, of which seven miles were carried above ground. Indeed, this stream and the Tepula may be considered as belonging to the Marcian aqueduct, they with the Marcian forming a triple course. After collecting a number of little tributary springs, at the distance of seven miles from the city, they flowed on towards Rome, each in its own channel, but over the same arches. The Julia was the highest, the Marcia the lowest of the three. About thirteen years afterwards, the same Agrippa brought to Rome the Aqua Virginis, so called from the circumstance, as related by Frontinus, that when some * "Why do these aqueducts cross the Campagna in courses so unnecessarily long and indirect!