User contributions for Gleb713

2 January 2025

• 08:1808:18, 2 January 2025 diff hist +1,014 Aqua Tepula A short summary of repairs added and cited from Van Deman (1934). current
• 08:0408:04, 2 January 2025 diff hist +6 m Aqua Tepula No edit summary
• 08:0308:03, 2 January 2025 diff hist −46 Aqua Tepula Well said is usually concisely said.
• 08:0208:02, 2 January 2025 diff hist +27 m Aqua Tepula →References
• 08:0008:00, 2 January 2025 diff hist +316 Aqua Tepula Neither Frontinus nor any other source I can locate says anything specific about the temperature -- Frontinus only mentions water being of bad quality; so, a less precise wording has been introduced together with citations.
• 07:4807:48, 2 January 2025 diff hist +813 m Aqua Tepula No edit summary
• 07:3007:30, 2 January 2025 diff hist +287 m Aqua Tepula No edit summary

30 December 2024

• 16:1516:15, 30 December 2024 diff hist −1 m List of aqueducts in the city of Rome No edit summary
• 16:1516:15, 30 December 2024 diff hist −15 List of aqueducts in the city of Rome The site removed does not seem to be worth mentioning (the information in it is not cited, for example).
• 16:1316:13, 30 December 2024 diff hist −66 List of aqueducts in the city of Rome Cleanup.
• 16:0916:09, 30 December 2024 diff hist +700 List of aqueducts in the city of Rome Exaggerations removed, varying estimates of the total supply cited from (at least somewhat) reliable sources.
• 08:3608:36, 30 December 2024 diff hist +869 Aqua Marcia A short summary of later restorations added from Van Deman (1934). Tag: Disambiguation links added
• 08:1808:18, 30 December 2024 diff hist +349 Aqua Marcia The citation from Livy amended.
• 08:0208:02, 30 December 2024 diff hist −51 m Aqua Marcia There should not be any need to refer twice to the list of aqueducts in the city of Rome (the section "See also" is there for a reason, I'd surmise).
• 08:0108:01, 30 December 2024 diff hist +476 Aqua Marcia Citations from De Aqueductu amended. Claims corrected: Frontinus says the new source was 800 paces from the original, and a Roman pace is (according to Wikipedia, among others) 1.48 metres. Claims removed: Doubling the output by addition of branch Augusta (Frontinus says it was for the dry season, and does not mention how much the output was increased).
• 07:3807:38, 30 December 2024 diff hist +1,273 Aqua Marcia Some citations introduced, and repetition removed (it must suffice to state once that the aqueduct was the longest supplying Rome).

26 December 2024

• 11:2911:29, 26 December 2024 diff hist +448 m Aqua Anio Vetus Citations from Smith (1890) added.
• 11:2511:25, 26 December 2024 diff hist +1,590 Aqua Anio Vetus Citations introduced for most of the basic facts.

25 December 2024

• 17:0317:03, 25 December 2024 diff hist +516 Iraqi Republic Railways →Iraq–Syria Direct Railway Link
• 16:4416:44, 25 December 2024 diff hist −207 Iraqi Republic Railways Google Maps satellite data from 2024 (cf. Google Maps data at 34°23'52.3"N 40°58'36.9"E) shows absolutely no rail infrastructure at all on the Syrian side of the border.
• 13:2913:29, 25 December 2024 diff hist +174 List of aqueducts in the city of Rome No edit summary

22 December 2024

• 06:1506:15, 22 December 2024 diff hist +106 Aqua Anio Vetus Citations added, clutter removed (well said is usually concisely said).
• 06:0206:02, 22 December 2024 diff hist −57 List of aqueducts in the city of Rome Sources added, clutter removed (e.g. if curator aquarium is a link to a page describing the term in more detail, surely there is no need to repeat the information here).
• 05:5405:54, 22 December 2024 diff hist +789 List of aqueducts in the city of Rome Table values have not been cited; so, values have been amended to reflect those in Hodge (1992, p. 347) and citations added to the table.

17 December 2024

• 16:4116:41, 17 December 2024 diff hist −122 Aqua Appia Moved to "External links". current
• 16:4016:40, 17 December 2024 diff hist −33 Aqua Appia The Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome (1929) is cited (now properly), so the link to the Lacus Curtius website, which is an HTML copy of the said dictionary, is redundant.
• 16:3316:33, 17 December 2024 diff hist −223 Aqua Appia Smith (1890 edition) is cited (now properly), so there's no need for a semi-dead link to an HTML copy of Smith's article about Aqua Appia.
• 16:3116:31, 17 December 2024 diff hist −200 Aqua Appia Hodge (1992) is now cited properly + duplicate removal.
• 15:1815:18, 17 December 2024 diff hist +1 Eupalinos No edit summary
• 15:1615:16, 17 December 2024 diff hist −5 Eupalinos Reference to Burns (1971) moved, paragraphs split into introduction, construction, and route (not necessarily the best choice, but it does beat a single blob).
• 14:5814:58, 17 December 2024 diff hist −221 Eupalinos Evans (1999) is now cited, so anyone wishing to drill deeper into the subject can find the article under "References".
• 14:5414:54, 17 December 2024 diff hist +264 Eupalinos Citations added.
• 14:3814:38, 17 December 2024 diff hist −396 Eupalinos Instead of direct quotations, an encyclopedia paraphrases (concisely): The quotation from Herodotus replaced with a citation.
• 14:2614:26, 17 December 2024 diff hist +51 Eupalinos No edit summary
• 14:2414:24, 17 December 2024 diff hist +840 Eupalinos Citations added.
• 14:1114:11, 17 December 2024 diff hist +43 Eupalinos Sources added and irrelevant minutiae (to be found from the article describing the road tunnel) cleaned.
• 14:0614:06, 17 December 2024 diff hist +383 Eupalinos An excess of links does not help, and engineer, well, is probably best left unlinked + a source added.
• 11:1311:13, 17 December 2024 diff hist −151 Aqua Appia Clutter cleanup.
• 11:0811:08, 17 December 2024 diff hist −104 Aqua Appia Clutter.
• 11:0611:06, 17 December 2024 diff hist +3 m Aqua Appia No edit summary
• 11:0511:05, 17 December 2024 diff hist +149 Aqua Appia Concisely said is usually well said.
• 10:4910:49, 17 December 2024 diff hist −312 Aqua Appia The section "Renovations and expansion" drills into the same subject, and more accurately.
• 10:4810:48, 17 December 2024 diff hist −155 Aqua Appia As interesting as Fabretti's exclamations may be, they're not really part of historical context of the building of Aqua Appia.
• 10:4710:47, 17 December 2024 diff hist −177 Aqua Appia The claim about unsophisticated construction appears to be false. What little of the aqueduct remains, is, according to e.g. Van Deman (1934) and Hodge (1992) close to what would be "a standard aqueduct construction".
• 10:4610:46, 17 December 2024 diff hist 0 m Aqua Appia →Historical context
• 10:4510:45, 17 December 2024 diff hist −90 Aqua Appia The claim about the necessity for greater supply of water simply because of population growth appears to be false. E.g. Hodge (1992) says aqueducts were build for several reasons, the two most important being supplying water to large bath complexes and the civic pride resulting from having ample supply of water available.
• 10:3110:31, 17 December 2024 diff hist −86 Aqua Appia References to the cencors with the same nomen as Frontinus does.
• 10:2510:25, 17 December 2024 diff hist +138 Aqua Appia Cleanup of unnecessary clutter & detail.
• 10:1610:16, 17 December 2024 diff hist +20 m Aqua Appia No edit summary

16 December 2024

• 17:3917:39, 16 December 2024 diff hist +21 Aqua Appia No edit summary