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Encyclopedia Britannica



FORUM APPII

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 729 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FLA-FRA
FORUM APPII , an ancient post station on the Via Appia, 43 M. S.E. of Rome, founded, no doubt, by the
original
  constructor of the road.
Horace
  mentions it as the usual
halt
  at the end of the first day's journey from Rome, and describes it as full of boatmen and cheating innkeepers. The presence of the former was due to the fact that it was the starting-point of a canal which ran parallel to the road through the Pomptine Marshes, and was used instead of it at the time of Strabo and
Horace
  (see APPIA, VIA). It is mentioned also as a halting place in the account of
Paul
 's journey to Rome (Acts xxviii. 15). Under Nerva and Trajan the road was repaired; one inscription records expressly the paving with silex (replacing the former gravelling) of the
section
  from Tripontium, 4 M. N.W., to Forum Appii; the
bridge
  near Tripontium was similarly repaired, and that at Forum Appii, though it bears no inscription, is of the same style. Only scanty
relics
  of antiquity have been found here; a post station was placed here by
Pius
  VI. when the Via Appia was reconstructed. (T. As.)


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