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    The Curator Aquarum was a Roman official responsible for managing Rome's water supply and distributing free grain. Curators were appointed by the emperor...
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    the aqueducts was an ongoing task for the Curator Aquarum or Water Commissioner of Rome. The Curator Aquarum was also in charge of investigations into...
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  • aqueducts until Augustus created the office of water commissioner (curator aquarum); this was a high status, high-profile Imperial appointment. In 97...
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  • the end of the 1st c. BC. Sextus Julius Frontinus (40 – 104 AD), “Curator Aquarum” of all the aqueducts of Rome, had a villa in Formiae in which Aelianus...
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    according to Sextus Julius Frontinus, the Roman consul who was named curator aquarum or guardian of the water of the city, Rome had nine aqueducts which...
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    aqueducts were logged around 97 AD by Sextus Julius Frontinus, the Curator Aquarum (superintendent of the aqueducts) for Rome during the reign of Nerva...
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    JSTOR 268990. S2CID 162201279. M Peachin, Frontinus and the Curae of the Curator Aquarum (p. 92 – footnote 21) Volume 39 of Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge...
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    according to Sextus Julius Frontinus, the Roman consul who was named curator aquarum or guardian of the water of the city, Rome had nine aqueducts which...
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  • 63 he was replaced by Marcus Trebellius Maximus, and was appointed curator aquarum (superintendent of aqueducts) in Rome. In 65 he was given a triumph...
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  • attests that he was proconsul of Asia in AD 86. In 97, he was appointed curator aquarum (supervisor of the aqueducts) by the emperor Nerva, an office only...
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    Rabun (2010), "Bread and Water; Septimus Severus and the Rise of the curator Aquarum et Miniciae," Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Vol 55, pp....
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  • emperor Nerva. In AD 24 Tiberius appointed him to the head of the curatores aquarum, a three-man commission responsible for Rome's water supply. In 33...
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    According to Sextus Julius Frontinus, the Roman consul who was named curator aquarum or guardian of the water of Rome in 98 AD, Rome had nine aqueducts...
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  • governorship of Sicily "may have lasted more than twelve months". Didius was curator aquarum (superintendent of aqueducts) from 38 to 49, consul in 39, and a member...
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  • of AD 33 as the colleague of Lucius Salvius Otho. Laenas was also curator aquarum, or overseer of the aqueducts and water supply of Rome from the death...
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  • Sextus Julius Frontinus is appointed superintendent of the aqueducts (curator aquarum) in Rome. At least 10 aqueducts supply the city with 250 million US...
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  • when his powers were exhausted. During the reign of Nero he became curator aquarum, or superintendent of the city's water supply, but died not long afterwards...
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    extension of its pipes to cover more of the city. He became the first Curator Aquarum of Rome in 33 BC. Through his actions after being elected in 33 BC...
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  • Priscus Egrilius Plarianus - senator Manius Acilius Aviola - consul, curator aquarum, and governor of Asia Manius Acilius Aviola - consul in 239 Manius...
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    Vipsanius Agrippa (close friend and ally of Emperor Augustus) was curator aquarum in Rome, principally in order to refurnish the Roman fleet of Misenum...
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  • in opposition to Marcus Antistius Labeo. In the year 11, he became curator aquarum and was responsible for water supply and regulation throughout the...
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  • distinction, and close to being consul ordinarius". Marcellus served as curator aquarum urbis (supervisor of the city's aqueducts) between his consulship and...
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    Sextus Julius Frontinus is appointed superintendent of the aqueducts (curator aquarum) in Rome. At least 10 aqueducts supply the city with 250 million US...
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  • his colleague. Although Frontinus records that Marius was appointed curator aquarum in 64, we know nothing more about him. George Houston points out that...
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  • colleague of, or an assistant to Aulus Didius Gallus, when the latter was curator aquarum, or superintendent of the aqueducts, from AD 38 to 49. Rubria Ichmas...
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  • judge). His post-consular career saw him remain in Italy. He served as curator aquarum et miniciae (official in charge of the distribution of water and grain...
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    Vitrasius Pollio received a series of imperial appointments. First was curator aquarum, or overseer of the aqueducts of Rome. Next he served as a legatus...
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  • governor of Asia in 65/66. According to Brian Jones, Aviola was also curator aquarum (or "superintendent of the aqueducts") from 74 to 97. He is known almost...
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    prefect of the aerarium Saturni (or the treasury), curator of the Via Aemilia, and curator aquarum (or manager of the water supply). These were obviously...
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    longer be permitted to try cases in their own houses. He served as curator aquarum for Rome from 60 to 63. In the year 62 the emperor Nero appointed Piso...
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