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The Reception of Platonism

supplemented by the Aqua Tepula nineteen years later, the rise in the capital's population during the next century was, surprisingly, not so significant as to require additional quantities of water, until Agrippa and Augustus again overhauled the city's supply to 'meet the needs of a growing population and Augustus' building programme (p. 137). Then, by the time of the emperor Claudius, further additions and improvements to Rome's water supply were again urgently required. The fact that Pliny lists some of the uses of water as public buildings, baths, pools, open channels, private houses, gardens and estates (N.H. 36.121), and the fact that the Aqua Alsietina delivered water extra urbem to Augustus' Naumachia, warns against the simple correlation of growth and supply. These, rather, are the delectationes, which Vitruvius mentions (De arch. 8.1.1). Similarly the total percentage of water (second only to the amount delivered to public uses), which was delivered to privati, could in part be explained by the extremely high number of privately owned balnea, which Rome's regionary catalogues record (856 excluding the large imperial thermae). The text is clear and the annotation helpful. Two maps allow orientation of the regions and aqueducts, but more detailed knowledge of the capital's topography is advantageous at times. Overall, within the parameters of the title of the book, the study offers an easily accessible account of Frontinus' treatise and attempts to understand one of the fascinating aspects of Rome's development.