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Codex Justinianus 529
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195-196
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(Codex Justinianus 11.42.6)
The Same Emperors (Theodosius and Valentinian) to Cyrus, Praetorian Prefect.
Every servitude permitting water to be drawn from the aqueduct of Hadrian, whether for domestic use, for the irrigation of land, for country villas, or for baths, either by virtue of an Imperial Rescript, or secured by usurpation, is hereby absolutely abolished; for We prefer that the aforesaid aqueduct should be used to provide water for the public, hot and cold baths, and for Our palace.
We decree that this law shall, by all means, be observed hereafter, and that permission shall be granted to no one, in answer to a petition, to take water from the said aqueduct, nor shall anyone venture to pierce it for that purpose. All persons who, for any reason whatsoever, may think that they are entitled to this privilege (or any official who dares to grant it, or even receive a petition for that purpose), are hereby notified that they will be fined a hundred pounds of gold for the benefit of the Treasury. We order that no trees shall be planted within ten feet of a public aqueduct, but that, on each side of the same, the space of ten feet shall remain unoccupied and unobstructed.
Moreover, We decree that the same rule shall be observed with reference to the leaden pipes which conduct water to the hot baths called by the name of Achilles, which We have learned that Your Highness has erected; for We desire that the above-mentioned pipes shall only be used for providing the hot and cold baths with water, which is the purpose for which you intended them.
Your Highness must also give authority to your subordinates to exercise supervision over houses, suburban villas, and baths, without running any risk, in order to prevent deception from being practised, or suppression, or any other illegal act from being committed by anyone against the public welfare, so far as the use of water is concerned.
Comment by Crow 2008: Cyrus was Urban Prefect in 426 and 439-41, but Praetorian Prefect in 439-41 see PLRE 2, s.v. Fl. Taurus Seleucus Cyrus.
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