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POMPEIAjSTA. 71
outlast the empire, of which they have,
not inaptly, been termed the arteries.
Nor was their construction alone the
object of solicitude; the care of looking
to their repair was not thought unworthy
the greatest men of the republic. None
but those of the highest rank were eligible
to the office of superintending that ser-
vice, and we find Augustus himself taking
the charge of a district.
The Appian Way, the most ancient
as well as most noble, being distinguished
by the epithet of regina viarum, as ori-
ginally made by Appius Claudius the Cen-
sor, extended from Home to Capua i.
It was composed of three strata; the
lower, of rough stones or flint cemented
together, formed a foundation or statu-
men; the middle stratum or rudera was
of gravel; the upper of well jointed stones
Livy, ix. 29. Procopius, at the distance of nearly a
thousand years, mentions it as still entire.
outlast the empire, of which they have,
not inaptly, been termed the arteries.
Nor was their construction alone the
object of solicitude; the care of looking
to their repair was not thought unworthy
the greatest men of the republic. None
but those of the highest rank were eligible
to the office of superintending that ser-
vice, and we find Augustus himself taking
the charge of a district.
The Appian Way, the most ancient
as well as most noble, being distinguished
by the epithet of regina viarum, as ori-
ginally made by Appius Claudius the Cen-
sor, extended from Home to Capua i.
It was composed of three strata; the
lower, of rough stones or flint cemented
together, formed a foundation or statu-
men; the middle stratum or rudera was
of gravel; the upper of well jointed stones
Livy, ix. 29. Procopius, at the distance of nearly a
thousand years, mentions it as still entire.