Crossword-Solution: CLOACAE 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The shores and channel of the Tiber, the vast _cloacae_ which carried off the refuse of the City, the quays and warehouses of Portus at the river's mouth were also under his authority.

Thence it poured down, cleansing, sluicing, working machinery of all sorts, through an infinite variety of capillary channels into the great drains, the _cloacae maximae_, and so carried the sewage out to the agricultural areas that surrounded London on every side.

There exist in the mud of marshes, rivers and cloacae, &c., however, other anaerobic bacteria which decompose cellulose, probably hydrolysing it first and then splitting the products into carbon dioxide and marsh gas.

Lasting, though inelegant, monuments these; for after twenty-five centuries have passed away, and after so many Romes have arisen and fallen above them, the _cloacae_ of Tarquinius Priscus still remain and admirably serve their purpose.

Without resorting to this exaggeration, Mommsen can speak with perfect truth of the "enormous space occupied by the burial vaults of Christian Rome, not surpassed even by the _cloacae_ or sewers of Republican Rome," but the data are too vague to warrant any attempt to define their dimensions.