LacusCurtius: Roman Fountains
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Description: Article from William Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1875), illustrated with three woodcuts.
LacusCurtius • Roman Fountains (Smith's Dictionary, 1875) Article by Philip Smith, B.A., of the University of London ), signifies originally a natural spring of water, but both the Greeks and Romans had artificial fountains, made either by covering and decorating a spring with buildings and sculpture, or by making a jet or stream of water, supplied by an elevated cistern, play into an artificial basin. Such fountains served the double purpose of use and ornament. Among the Greeks, they formed the only public supply of water except the rain-water which was collected in cisterns [
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