Mouth of the Cloaca of the Circus Maximus

"...But the exactness of an archaeologist compels me to say that the Cloaca Maxima, in
spite of its name, can no longer boast of the priority which it has enjoyed for so many centuries in the department of Roman sewers. In canoeing along the left bank
of the Tiber, I had long noticed the mouth of another cloaca, a trifle larger than the Maxima, and separated from it by an interval of some three hundred feet. I had heard it called the cloaca of the Circus Maximus, but I was ignorant on whose authority and by what reason such a name had been applied..."

Ancient Rome
in the light of recent excavations

Author: Rodolfo Lanciani
Editor:Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York
Published: 1890


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