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ALSIETINUS LACUS (mod. Lago di Martignano) , a small See also:lake in See also:southern See also:Etruria, 15 m. due N.N.W. of See also:Rome, in an See also:extinct See also:crater . See also:Augustus See also:drew from it the Aqua Alsietina; the See also:water was hardly See also:fit to drink, and was mainly intended to See also:supply his naumachia (lake made for a sham See also:naval See also:battle) at Rome, near S . See also:Francesco a Ripa, on the right See also:bank of the See also:Tiber, where some traces of the See also:aqueduct were perhaps found in 1720 . The course of the aqueduct, which was mainly subterranean, is practically unknown: See also:Frontinus tells us that it received a See also:branch from the lake of See also:Bracciano near Careiae (Galera): and an inscription See also:relating to it was found in this See also:district in 1887 (F . Barnabei, Notizie degli Scavi, 1887, 18r) . |
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