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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.898#0160
CIPPI.
A. CIPPUS is a low column with an inscription, as a me-
morial of something remarkable. Cippi were in form some-
times square and sometimes round, and frequently without
base or capital. They served for various purposes among
the ancients. When erected by the road side, with distances
engraved upon them, they were termed milliary columns.
In this situation they were also set up to direct the way to
travellers. The public roads were perhaps the greatest of
all the stupendous works of the Romans; (for they were
made with amazing labour, at an enormous expense, and
A. CIPPUS is a low column with an inscription, as a me-
morial of something remarkable. Cippi were in form some-
times square and sometimes round, and frequently without
base or capital. They served for various purposes among
the ancients. When erected by the road side, with distances
engraved upon them, they were termed milliary columns.
In this situation they were also set up to direct the way to
travellers. The public roads were perhaps the greatest of
all the stupendous works of the Romans; (for they were
made with amazing labour, at an enormous expense, and