Kathleenb Posted March 3, 2006 Report Share Posted March 3, 2006 One secondary source I have mentions the "free poor" building the first aqueduct built by Augustus. Was that typical for the later aqueducts? What about other public buildings? The public baths charged fees for their use - I've read the fees were small/reasonable. Were those fees used to pay for the original building, or only the ongoing operational expenses? Just curious... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew Dalby Posted March 3, 2006 Report Share Posted March 3, 2006 One secondary source I have mentions the "free poor" building the first aqueduct built by Augustus. Was that typical for the later aqueducts? What about other public buildings? The public baths charged fees for their use - I've read the fees were small/reasonable. Were those fees used to pay for the original building, or only the ongoing operational expenses? Just curious... The big and most famous baths in Rome were given to the city by emperors or other major figures (e.g. Agrippa). They were therefore built out of private funds (the original source of those funds? That's a more complicated question!) and any fees for bathers must have been intended to pay running costs. There were also privately operated baths -- Martial mentions them in his poems. I've put one of the poems, with a shortened translation, on my Latin blog this morning -- here it is -- http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dalby/ephemeris/blog.html#101 Baths like these, I suppose, must have been run on a commercial basis. Incidentally, the 'raw Virgo' and the 'Marcia' mentioned in this poem are the cold water supplied to the baths by these two named aqueducts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Favonius Cornelius Posted March 3, 2006 Report Share Posted March 3, 2006 on my Latin blog this morning -- here it is -- The man has a Latin blog. I salute you scholar! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primus Pilus Posted March 3, 2006 Report Share Posted March 3, 2006 I vaguely recall that there supposed to be fees for running pipes and water to individual residences and perhaps even subura blocks. I don't recall where I may have read this... but perhaps it was Frontinus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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