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VIA ARDEATINA
560
and in 189 b.c. the first mile, from the gate to the temple, was similarly
treated (Liv. xxxviii. 28. 3). Its further course cannot be dealt with
here.1
The earliest milestone we have belongs to about 250 b.c. (CIL i2.
21), and others belong to Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian and Theodoric (CIL
ix. 6075 ; x. 6812-6880 ; cf. p. 991 ; NS 1910, 292).
For the road as a whole, see Canina, Via Appia, Rome 1853 ; T i.
35-71, 588-597; ix. 3-407 ; RE ii. 238-242; Mel. 1903, 375-418; HJ
200, 209-213.
For its curatores (who owe their institution to Claudius, with the
other curatores of particular roads, see Senec. Apoc. I : Appiae viae
curator est qua seis et Tiberium Caesarem et Augustum ad deos isse),
see CIL ii. 1929 ; CIG 4029 ; v. 865, 4341 ; vi. 3832 =31719 ; ix. 1129;
xiv. 2505, to whose staff the tabularii viae Appiae (CIL vi. 8466),
belonged. For a manceps viae Appiae, cf. ib. 8468.
Via Ardeatina (Fest. 282; CIL vi. 13074; Not. app. ; Jord. ii. 581):
the road leading to Ardea, 24 miles distant, which (according to the view
hitherto current) branched off to the southward from the Vicus Piscinae
Publicae, passed through the Porta Naevia (as far as which it was
called Vicus Portae Naeviae), and then ran just inside the Aurelian
wall (on the left of it is a large circular tomb—HJ 186 ; LF 45) as far
as the postern generally known as Porta Ardeatina, which was removed
when the great bastion was built for Paul III by Antonio da Sangallo
the younger (Mitt. 1894, 320-327). Nothing is left of the course of the
road just outside the gate. No milestones belonging to it have been
found, but an inscription (CIL vi. 8469) records a manceps viarum
Laurentinae et Ardeatinae.
From this it has been concluded that these two roads diverged just
outside the porta Ardeatina (Mon. L. xiii. 137-142) ; but it has also
been pointed out that the road which branches from the Via Ostiensis
(q.v.) at vicus Alexandri must be the via Laurentina mentioned by
Pliny (Ep. ii. 17. 2 : et Laurentina et Ostiensis eodem ferunt) ; and it
is very likely that one was the vetus and the other the nova (EE ix. p. 375,
376), and probably the first mentioned would be the vetus.
Another solution is to suppose that the via Ardeatina diverged from the
via Appia to the right at the church of Domine quo vadis (?), as the modern
road which bears the name via Ardeatina does. In that case the road
which ran through the porta Naevia and the postern just mentioned
would be the via Laurentina (vetus ?). This avoids the necessity of
supposing the existence (which, if we accept the usual theory, we must
do) of three bridges 2 over the Almo, including that of the via Appia,
1 The description of the method of its construction in Procop. BG i. 14 is interesting;
cf. Stat. Silv. iv. 3. 40-55.
2 This is, of course, excluding the bridge of the via Ostiensis ; and it is worth noting
that the Tabula Peutingerana only marks three bridges in all, inclusive of it.
560
and in 189 b.c. the first mile, from the gate to the temple, was similarly
treated (Liv. xxxviii. 28. 3). Its further course cannot be dealt with
here.1
The earliest milestone we have belongs to about 250 b.c. (CIL i2.
21), and others belong to Nerva, Trajan, Hadrian and Theodoric (CIL
ix. 6075 ; x. 6812-6880 ; cf. p. 991 ; NS 1910, 292).
For the road as a whole, see Canina, Via Appia, Rome 1853 ; T i.
35-71, 588-597; ix. 3-407 ; RE ii. 238-242; Mel. 1903, 375-418; HJ
200, 209-213.
For its curatores (who owe their institution to Claudius, with the
other curatores of particular roads, see Senec. Apoc. I : Appiae viae
curator est qua seis et Tiberium Caesarem et Augustum ad deos isse),
see CIL ii. 1929 ; CIG 4029 ; v. 865, 4341 ; vi. 3832 =31719 ; ix. 1129;
xiv. 2505, to whose staff the tabularii viae Appiae (CIL vi. 8466),
belonged. For a manceps viae Appiae, cf. ib. 8468.
Via Ardeatina (Fest. 282; CIL vi. 13074; Not. app. ; Jord. ii. 581):
the road leading to Ardea, 24 miles distant, which (according to the view
hitherto current) branched off to the southward from the Vicus Piscinae
Publicae, passed through the Porta Naevia (as far as which it was
called Vicus Portae Naeviae), and then ran just inside the Aurelian
wall (on the left of it is a large circular tomb—HJ 186 ; LF 45) as far
as the postern generally known as Porta Ardeatina, which was removed
when the great bastion was built for Paul III by Antonio da Sangallo
the younger (Mitt. 1894, 320-327). Nothing is left of the course of the
road just outside the gate. No milestones belonging to it have been
found, but an inscription (CIL vi. 8469) records a manceps viarum
Laurentinae et Ardeatinae.
From this it has been concluded that these two roads diverged just
outside the porta Ardeatina (Mon. L. xiii. 137-142) ; but it has also
been pointed out that the road which branches from the Via Ostiensis
(q.v.) at vicus Alexandri must be the via Laurentina mentioned by
Pliny (Ep. ii. 17. 2 : et Laurentina et Ostiensis eodem ferunt) ; and it
is very likely that one was the vetus and the other the nova (EE ix. p. 375,
376), and probably the first mentioned would be the vetus.
Another solution is to suppose that the via Ardeatina diverged from the
via Appia to the right at the church of Domine quo vadis (?), as the modern
road which bears the name via Ardeatina does. In that case the road
which ran through the porta Naevia and the postern just mentioned
would be the via Laurentina (vetus ?). This avoids the necessity of
supposing the existence (which, if we accept the usual theory, we must
do) of three bridges 2 over the Almo, including that of the via Appia,
1 The description of the method of its construction in Procop. BG i. 14 is interesting;
cf. Stat. Silv. iv. 3. 40-55.
2 This is, of course, excluding the bridge of the via Ostiensis ; and it is worth noting
that the Tabula Peutingerana only marks three bridges in all, inclusive of it.