"But let us now turn our attention to some marvels that, if justly appreciated, may be pronounced to remain unsurpassed... If we take into account the abundant supply of water to the public, for baths, ponds, canals, household purposes, gardens, places in the suburbs and country houses, and then reflect upon the distances that are traversed from the sources on the hills, the arches that have been constructed, the mountains pierced, the valleys leveled, we must perforce admit that there is nothing more worthy of our admiration throughout the whole universe."
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Pliny the Elder, Natural History (CE 77–79) 36.24.121–123, as translated by John Bostock and H. T. Riley, vol. 6 (London: Henry G. Bohn, 1857), p. 353
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