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Calix

Calix a tube, regulating the supply of water, attached to the extremity of each pipe, where it entered the castellum of an aqueduct. (Frontin. Aquaed. 36.) It is explained under AQUAEDUCTUS p. 156 a.

From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.