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VIA COLLATINA—VIA FLAMINIA
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Via Collatina : a road which led to Collatia, 11 miles from Rome, diverging
from the Via Tiburtina just outside the Porta Tiburtina of the
Aurelian wall. It was a road of purely local importance ; and it is men-
tioned only in connection with the springs of the Aqua Appia and the
Aqua Virgo (Frontinus, de aquis, i. 5, 10). From Collatia a road ran
to the via Praenestina (T. vi. 139-151 ; x. 460-492; PBS i. 138-149;
REiii. 365).
Via Cornelia* (Not. app.) : the road which ran along the north side of
the circus Gai, diverging from the via Triumphalis a little to the west of
the pons Neronianus, near a large tomb (the so-called Meta Romuli, q.v.;
cf. Mon. L. i. 525-527 ; LR 560 ; DAP 2. viii. 383). Various tombs
orientated on its axis were found in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries in the rebuilding of S. Peter’s, and on it was situated the tomb
of the Apostle himself (Lanciani, Pagan and Christian Rome 126-131 ;
HJ 658-660). After the construction of the pons Aelius it was prolonged
eastward to communicate with it (see Porta Cornelia). It left the
Leonine wall by the porta Pertusa (KH iii. ; LF 13), and ran westward
for some 9 miles. Thus far it is clearly traceable ; but whether it turned
northwards to Boccea or what course it followed after that is quite
uncertain. It was under the curatores of the Via Aurelia (Mel. 1902, 1-7 ;
T. ix. 463, 464, 481-490).
Via Flaminia* (Not. app. ; Eins. 4. 10) : constructed in 220 b.c. during
the censorship of C. Flaminius (Liv. Epit. xx. ; Strabo v. 217 wrongly
ascribes it to C. Flaminius the younger) from Rome to Ariminum. Its
importance led to its having a special curator as early as 65 b.c. (Cic.
ad Att. i. 1. 2), and it was restored by Augustus himself in 27 b.c. (Mon.
Anc. iv. 19; Suet. Aug. 30; Cass. Dio liii. 22; Cohen, Aug. 229-235,
54i-544 = BM. Aug. 79-81, 432-436). It was a much frequented road
(Strabo v. 227 ; Tac. Hist. i. 86 ; ii. 64), and the four silver cups of about
the time of Trajan, found at Vicarello, on which is the itinerary by land
from Rome to Gades, prove this (CIL xi. 3281-3284). Cf. Hist. Aug.
Maximin. 25. 2.
The road gave its name to one of the districts of Italy as early as the
second century a.d. We have epigraphic testimony of the importance
of the traffic on it (praef. vehiculorum a copis Aug. per viam Flaminiam
CIL x. 7585; praepositus [cursualisj de via Flabinia {sic) ib. vi. 33714).
For milestones and other inscriptions relating to repairs, cf. CIL xi. 6619,
sqq.
The via Flaminia started in a north-north-west direction from a
gate of the Servian wall on the east slope of the Capitol which had wrongly
been identified with the Porta Ratumena, though later topographers
identify it with the Porta Fontinalis (RhM 1894, 411). It turned
slightly westward a little before passing the tomb of Bibulus (q.v.),
and passing the so-called tomb of the Claudii, resumed its former direction.
562
Via Collatina : a road which led to Collatia, 11 miles from Rome, diverging
from the Via Tiburtina just outside the Porta Tiburtina of the
Aurelian wall. It was a road of purely local importance ; and it is men-
tioned only in connection with the springs of the Aqua Appia and the
Aqua Virgo (Frontinus, de aquis, i. 5, 10). From Collatia a road ran
to the via Praenestina (T. vi. 139-151 ; x. 460-492; PBS i. 138-149;
REiii. 365).
Via Cornelia* (Not. app.) : the road which ran along the north side of
the circus Gai, diverging from the via Triumphalis a little to the west of
the pons Neronianus, near a large tomb (the so-called Meta Romuli, q.v.;
cf. Mon. L. i. 525-527 ; LR 560 ; DAP 2. viii. 383). Various tombs
orientated on its axis were found in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries in the rebuilding of S. Peter’s, and on it was situated the tomb
of the Apostle himself (Lanciani, Pagan and Christian Rome 126-131 ;
HJ 658-660). After the construction of the pons Aelius it was prolonged
eastward to communicate with it (see Porta Cornelia). It left the
Leonine wall by the porta Pertusa (KH iii. ; LF 13), and ran westward
for some 9 miles. Thus far it is clearly traceable ; but whether it turned
northwards to Boccea or what course it followed after that is quite
uncertain. It was under the curatores of the Via Aurelia (Mel. 1902, 1-7 ;
T. ix. 463, 464, 481-490).
Via Flaminia* (Not. app. ; Eins. 4. 10) : constructed in 220 b.c. during
the censorship of C. Flaminius (Liv. Epit. xx. ; Strabo v. 217 wrongly
ascribes it to C. Flaminius the younger) from Rome to Ariminum. Its
importance led to its having a special curator as early as 65 b.c. (Cic.
ad Att. i. 1. 2), and it was restored by Augustus himself in 27 b.c. (Mon.
Anc. iv. 19; Suet. Aug. 30; Cass. Dio liii. 22; Cohen, Aug. 229-235,
54i-544 = BM. Aug. 79-81, 432-436). It was a much frequented road
(Strabo v. 227 ; Tac. Hist. i. 86 ; ii. 64), and the four silver cups of about
the time of Trajan, found at Vicarello, on which is the itinerary by land
from Rome to Gades, prove this (CIL xi. 3281-3284). Cf. Hist. Aug.
Maximin. 25. 2.
The road gave its name to one of the districts of Italy as early as the
second century a.d. We have epigraphic testimony of the importance
of the traffic on it (praef. vehiculorum a copis Aug. per viam Flaminiam
CIL x. 7585; praepositus [cursualisj de via Flabinia {sic) ib. vi. 33714).
For milestones and other inscriptions relating to repairs, cf. CIL xi. 6619,
sqq.
The via Flaminia started in a north-north-west direction from a
gate of the Servian wall on the east slope of the Capitol which had wrongly
been identified with the Porta Ratumena, though later topographers
identify it with the Porta Fontinalis (RhM 1894, 411). It turned
slightly westward a little before passing the tomb of Bibulus (q.v.),
and passing the so-called tomb of the Claudii, resumed its former direction.