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installation	Valens aqueduct bridge
name	Valens aqueduct bridge - Inauguration
event type	Inauguration
start date	373
end date	373 (Fixed date)
date comments	-
persons	Clearchus - Inaugurator (372-373)
description	The inauguration actually concerns the Valens waterway and, therefore, the entire system of which the so-called Valens Aqueduct formed part.
comments	-

#	Code	Page	Excerpt
1	Jerome 380	54	(Chronicle, A.D. 373) Clearchus, the prefect of the city at Constantinople was a famous man. He brought the necessary long-prayed-for water into the city with his aqueduct. Comment by Crow 2008: Clearchus was City Prefect of Constantinople in 372-373, 382-384 and consul in 384. See PLRE 1, 211-12 s.v. Clearchus 1.