In Baiano autem aedificans tanta ardebat cura, ut architecto permiserit vel ut suam pecuniam consumeret, dummodo perduceret specus e piscinis in mare obiecta mole, qua aestus bis cotidie ab exorta luna ad proximam novam introire ac redire rursus in mare posset ac refrigerare piscinas.
But while he was building near Baiae he became so enthusiastic that he allowed the architect to spend money as if it were his own, provided he would run a tunnel from his ponds into the sea and throw up a mole, so that the tide might run into the pond and back to the sea twice a day from the beginning of the moon until the next new moon, and cool off the ponds.
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