in August.c.42.The utmost debauch of the emperor himself, in his favorite wine of Rhaetia, never exceeded a sextarius, (an English pint.) Id.c.77.Torrentius ad loc.

and Arbuthnot's Tables, p.

86.] [Footnote 57: His design was to plant vineyards along the sea-coast of Hetruria, (Vopiscus, in Hist.August.p.

225;) the dreary, unwholesome, uncultivated Maremme of modern Tuscany] The stupendous aqueducts, so justly celebrated by the praises of Augustus himself, replenished the Thermoe, or baths, which had been constructed in every part of the city, with Imperial magnificence.

The baths of Antoninus Caracalla, which were open, at stated hours, for the indiscriminate service of the senators and the people, contained above sixteen hundred seats of marble; and more than three thousand were reckoned in the baths of Diocletian.