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e Porta Esquilina. The sixth (Aqua Virginis) was constructed by Agrippa thirteen years after the Julia. Its summit, in the territory of Tusculum, was about eight miles from Rome, which it entered by the Pincian Gate. This water still bears its ancient appellation, being called Acqua Vergine. The seventh (Aqua Alsietina, called also Augusta, from the use to which Augustus intended to apply it for supplying his Naumachia) was brought from the lake whose name it bears. The eighth (Aqua Claudia), begun by Caligula and completed by Claudius, is about forty miles in length. It enters the city at the Porta Nevia, near the Esquiline Mount. The quality of the water which this aqueduct supplies is better than that of any of the others. It was built of hewn stone and supported on arcades during seven miles of its length. After a lapse of eighteen hundred years it still continues to furnish Modern Rome with pure and wholesome water. The ninth (Anio Novus, to distinguish it from t