Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Aquarius

Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary, and Greek Lexicon (Rich, 1849)

AQUA'RIUS (ὑδροφόρος). A water carrier. Cic. Fam. viii. 6.

2. A slave employed in the baths, who brought in the water, poured it over the bather, and filled the labra, which latter duty is shown by the figure in the illustration (Aquarius/1.1), copied from a fictile vase. These men were noted for their licentious habits. Juv. vi. 332. compared with Festus, s. v.

3. An officer at Rome attached to the service of the aqueducts, whose duty it was to see that not more than the quantity allowed by law to each individual, or public establishment, was laid on from the main. Front. Aq.

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  Aquarius/1.1