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CLOACA

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 536 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CLOACA  , the Latin

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term given to the sewers laid to drain the
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low marshy grounds between the hills of
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Rome . The most important, which drained the
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forum, is known as the Cloaca
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Maxima and
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dates from the 6th
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century B.C . This was to ft . 6 in. wide, 14 ft. high, and was vaulted with three consecutive rings of voussoirs in
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stone, the
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floor being paved with polygonal blocks of
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lava .

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