Aqua Anio Vetus

The Aqua Anio Vetus was an ancient Roman aqueduct, and the second oldest after the Aqua Appia.

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The Anio Vetus was an engineering masterpiece, especially considering its early date and complexity of construction; it was four times as long as the Aqua Appia, its source much higher, its flow was more than twice,: §6–20  and it supplied water to higher elevations of the city. However, the Anio Vetus had muddy and discoloured water: §15  and probably did not supply drinking water to the Roman aristocracy.

It was commissioned in 272 BC and funded by treasures seized after the victory against Pyrrhus of Epirus. The aqueduct took water from the Anio river and acquired the nickname of Vetus ("old") only after the Anio Novus was built almost three centuries later.: §13 

Two magistrates were appointed by the Senate to instigate the project, the censors Manius Curius Dentatus (who died five days after the assignment) and Flavius Flaccus.

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