# Loeb Frontinus makes Julio-Claudian aqueduct administration a technical public text

Date: 1925

## The fact

C. E. Bennett’s Loeb Frontinus (1925) printed water law, capacity, and fraud control for Rome’s aqueducts, naming Gaius among builders. The dated book is a public-health-adjacent technical instrument. Clean water is capacity; Frontinus is not a clinic.

## Context

Lead pipes and fraud are in the same treatise.

[Caligula](/people/caligula) is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

Official edition, museum, or agency page and an independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Frontinus, De aquaeductu — LacusCurtius (https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Frontinus/De_Aquis/text*.html; LacusCurtius / University of Chicago).

## Significance

Printed aqueduct administration is a health-capacity path via water, with lag and shared credit.

Printed aqueduct administration is a health-capacity path via water, with lag and shared credit.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Caligula: https://factrail.ai/people/caligula

## Drivers

- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity

## Sources

- https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Frontinus/De_Aquis/text*.html
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caligula-Roman-emperor

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/cal-frontinus-water-science