The Cloaca Maxima (Greatest Sewer) was a sewage system constructed in ancient Rome initially around 600 BC.
Most homes in early Rome were not connected to the sewers, and wastes were thrown out into the street. However, a widespread street-washing policy (using aqueduct water) sent most human wastes into the sewers nonetheless. Eventually a law, called the Dejecti Effusive Act, was passed to protect innocent bystanders from assault by wastes thrown into the street. The violator was forced to pay damages to whomever his waste hit, if that person sustained an injury. This law was only enforced in the daytime, presumably because one then lacked the excuse of darkness for injuring another by careless waste disposal.
According to Lord Amulree, the site where Julius Caesar was assassinated, the Hall of Curia in the Theatre of Pompey, was turned into a public latrine because of the dishonour it had witnessed.
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