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Aqua Crabra
Crabra
also: Crabra
A stream near Tusculum whose water was apportioned by allotment among the neighbouring estates; water rights to it were a recurring concern of the Tusculan landowners, Cicero among them.
Reading notes
- Ad Familiares 16.18 §3 About the Aqua Crabra
The Crabra was a stream near Tusculum whose water was apportioned by allotment among the local estates; rights to it were a recurring concern of the Tusculan landowners.
- On the Agrarian Law, Third Speech §9 the Crabra water
Aqua Crabra, an irrigation stream serving the Tusculan district for which Cicero paid water-rent on his estate; he uses the homely detail to show that legitimately held land bears burdens that Sullan land, under Rullus's law, would not.