water-works
water-works:
1. ăquārum ductus: add w., channels drawn from rivers, adde ductus aquarum, derivationes fluminum, Cic. Off. 2, 4, 14.
2. ăquaeductus, ūs, m. (a conduit): you have managed the w. nicely, de aquaeductu probe fecisti, Cic. Att. 13, 6, 1.
3. ăqua (when qualified by the context, as is aqua Claudia in Suet. Claud. 20, where extensive w. are described). Phr.: to establish w. in a town, *aquam in urbem ducere, aquarum ductu per tubos et canales urbem instruere.
1. ăquārum ductus: add w., channels drawn from rivers, adde ductus aquarum, derivationes fluminum, Cic. Off. 2, 4, 14.
2. ăquaeductus, ūs, m. (a conduit): you have managed the w. nicely, de aquaeductu probe fecisti, Cic. Att. 13, 6, 1.
3. ăqua (when qualified by the context, as is aqua Claudia in Suet. Claud. 20, where extensive w. are described). Phr.: to establish w. in a town, *aquam in urbem ducere, aquarum ductu per tubos et canales urbem instruere.