These at first numbered 250 but at his death he bequeathed them to Augustus, who transferred them to the public. Claudius established another company of fountaineers, to about 460 persons, divided into differduring the erection of his aqueduct, amounting ent classes, and with distinct duties. There were the comptrollers, the keepers of the

castellum, inspectors, paviours, stuccoers, and other workmen. A portion of these were execute with promptness such repairs, as, without being exlodged in the city, in order to tensive, demanded immediate attention. Others were stationed near the reservoirs or

castella, or in the neighborhood of the public shows, to supply water to any point where it might be more particularly needed. Their maintenance was paid by the public, by a rate on domains and houses.*

In later days of the Empire, it would seem, five additional aqueducts were constructed, of which the Alexandrian^ as the ruins remain to testify, was the chief, and most magnificent.

When, A. D. 535, Rome was besieged by the Goths under Vitiges, Procopius,l the historian of the Gothic war, records that fourteen streams flowed into the city. It was

of course among the means employed by the barbarian invaders to induce submission, to cut off the accustomed supply of water, and Rome, in her 1289th year, and after enjoyof her fountains and aqueducts, was again ing for many centuries the lavish prodigality reduced to dependence on natural springs, the wells that had not been neglected and suffered to be filled up, and the yellow waters of the Tiber.