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fil(iae). This is the view of Visconti. Canina (Edifizi, v. p. 92, n. 11)
maintains that this small chamber cannot have been an Augusteum, which
should have stood opposite to the Curia.
A little way to the E. of the Forum Canina marks baths in his plan.
Of these no traces are now visible, and no description of them exists.
We know that in the excavations of 1792 five lead water-pipes were found
(C.T.L. xiv. 2815-2819 = xv. 7832, 7861b, 7863, 7864, 7868a), the first of


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Fig. 10.—Plan of the Forum, Gabii.

which bears the inscription : Aurelius Alexander prox(imus) ab epistulfa)
Lad/nis) ; Digitius fecit, while the other four give merely the name of the
maker of the pipe. Unfortunately, we have no details as to the precise
locality of their discovery, so that we cannot tell what was the property
of which Aurelius Alexander was the owner. Other buildings in the
neighbourhood are spoken of vaguely by Visconti (0,. cit. p. 19), in the ruins