1The city of Amastris, sir, which is both elegant and well adorned, has among its chief works a very beautiful and at the same time very long street; 1along one side of which, for its whole length, there stretches what is in name a river, but in reality a most foul sewer, and as it is disgusting with its filthy appearance, so it is pestilential with its most noisome smell. 2For these reasons it is no less a matter of health than of beauty that it should be covered over; 2and this will be done if you permit it, under my supervision, and I shall also ensure that money is not lacking for a work as great as it is necessary.
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Pliny · Epistulae X
Pliny, Letter 10.98
The sewer of Amastris
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