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POPILIA (or POPILLIA), VIA

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 89 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
POPILIA (or POPILLIA), VIA , the name of two ancient roads in
Italy
 . (1) A highroad running from the Via Appia at
Capua
  to
Regium
 , a distance of 321 M. right along the length of the peninsula, and the
main
  road through the interior of the country, not along the
coast
 . It was built in 159 B.C. by the censor M. Popilius Laenias or in 132 B.C. by the
consul
  P. Popilius. (2) A
highroad from
Ariminum
  to Aquileia along the Adriatic
coast
 . It no doubt originally came into use when Aquileia was founded As a frontier fortress of Italy in 181 B.C., and
Polybius
  gives the distance correctly as 178 m. In 132 it was reconstructed (munita) by the
consul
  P. Popilius, one of whose milestones has been found near Atria. It ran along the shore strip (Lido) from
Ariminum
  to Ravenna (33 m.), where it was usual in imperial times for travellers to take ship and go by canal to Altinum (q.v.), and there resume their journey by road, though we find the stations right through on the Tabula Peutingeriana, and Narses marched in 552 from Aquileia to Ravenna. (T. As.)


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