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above-mentioned. M. Angel. Rojjt Roma Antic a, 
p. 229. 23 1. 
The epithet vetas didinguifiies this water from that 
of the Anio ndvus> which was brought to Rome from 
the didance of fixty-two miles, by the emperor Clau- 
dius, in the twelfth year of his reign, about A. TJ. 803, 
as appears from an infcription in Vafi, lib. i. p. 32. 
To which we may add the tedimony of Suetonius — 
(Claudius) Rivum Anient s novi lapideo opere in ut bem 
perduxit , divijitque in plurimos et ornatijjimos lacus. 
Suet. Claud, c. xx. 
Infcript. 3. 1 . 7, 8. — PONTIFEX. PVBLICO- 
RV. SACRIFICIORVM.] If this title implies the 
fame as that of the Sacerdotes Publici in Livy, it 
comprehended the feveral orders of Pontifex Maxi- 
mus, Pontifex, Augur, Decemvir Sacrorum, &c. 
Liv. Hift. lib. xxv. c. 2. xxvi. 23. xli. 2 1, &c. But 
to which of thel'e clades SAMNIVS, mentioned in 
this infcription, belonged, we cannot determine. 
lb. 1 . 9. — PRAEFECTVS. VIGILVM.] Some 
writers refer the fird inditution of a night-watch, for 
the fafeguard of the city of Rome from fires, to Au- 
gufius. Auguflus adverfus incendia excubias ncdlur- 
nas, vlgilefque commentus eji. Suet. Aug. c. xxx. 
H7rof>i ’tv tu) ^povoj T8T4.', GV. Cum €0 tempore mult a 
ejjent in urbe inccndiis vafiata , libertinos J'eptem locis 
adea citranda injlituit (Auguflus). Dion. Calf. 1 . lv. 
A. U. 759. But Livy mentions an office fublifiing 
in Rome, in the time of the republic, as early as 
A. U. 449, viz. the Triumviratus nodlurnus , (Liv. 
Hill:, lib. ix. c. 46.) which mud have been the 
fame 
