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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3760201, member: 19463"]From a purely curiosity standpoint, it would be interesting to know just how bad the Roman sewer did smell. They were running a lot of water from the aqueducts through the system and did not have a lot of foul smelling factory waste as found in later times. I imagine they realized the the Purifier was what made it possible to have that many people in a confined space. Of course there is the matter of different standards. Today, those from the rural parts of the US (except those near hog farms, etc.) breathe different spelling air than those in the big cities. In the other direction the rather few wilderness residents could not find many good smelling places in the Eastern half of the US. I imagine Rome smelled worse than most places in the empire but I have no idea how that compared to what we have today. </p><p><br /></p><p>I do not have the other obverse.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1007503[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3760201, member: 19463"]From a purely curiosity standpoint, it would be interesting to know just how bad the Roman sewer did smell. They were running a lot of water from the aqueducts through the system and did not have a lot of foul smelling factory waste as found in later times. I imagine they realized the the Purifier was what made it possible to have that many people in a confined space. Of course there is the matter of different standards. Today, those from the rural parts of the US (except those near hog farms, etc.) breathe different spelling air than those in the big cities. In the other direction the rather few wilderness residents could not find many good smelling places in the Eastern half of the US. I imagine Rome smelled worse than most places in the empire but I have no idea how that compared to what we have today. I do not have the other obverse. [ATTACH=full]1007503[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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