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Aqua Virgo
The cold-water aqueduct built by Agrippa (19 BC), feeding the basins of the Campus Martius; Seneca recalls plunging into it on New Year's Day as a young cold-bather.
Reading notes
- Moral Letters to Lucilius §10.83.5 Aqua Virgo
Agrippa's cold-water aqueduct (19 BC) and its basins in the Campus Martius; Seneca, once a hardy cold-bather, marked the New Year by plunging into it.