"The extraordinary greatness of the Roman Empire manifests itself above all in three things: the aqueducts, the paved roads, and the construction of the drains."
— Roman aqueduct

January 1, 1970

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Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Roman Antiquities (c. 7 BCE), as cited by Lorenzo Quilici, "Land Transport, Part 1: Roads and Bridges" in The Oxford Handbook of Engineering and Technology in the Classical World (2008)