Excerpt from The Walls, Gates and Aqueducts of Rome The story of that siege has been given us by the historian Procopius, a civil servant on the staff of Belisarius, and will be found transcribed at some length in the volume from which these extracts are taken. I refer to it now only in order to explain some allusions which might otherwise perplex the reader. I have reprinted here only so much of my book as describes the City (in the year the Walls, and the Aqueducts of Rome. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.