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λ’ΙΑ TECTA—VIA TIBURTINA
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not impossible that the name came from the fact that in 335-336 people
still remembered its having been closed by the construction of the
Aurelian wall. That the original road ran this way is unlikely. See
Jord. i. I. 430; T iii. 1-133 ; HJ 437; PBS iii. 7 sqq. ; Mitt. 1908,
275-329, 376; 1909, 121-169, 208-255; 1912, 221-229, 248; RE i. A.
1845, 2078 ; SR i. 353.
Via Tecta (i) : a street in the campus Martius, mentioned three times in
the literature of the first century (Seneca, Apoc. 13 : descendunt per
viam Sacram . . . inicit illi manum Talthybius . . . et trahit . . . per
campum Martium ; et inter Tiberim et viam Tectam descendit ad
inferos ; Mart. iii. 5. 5 ; viii. 75. 1,2: dum repetit sera conductos nocte
penates / Lingonus a tecta Flaminiaque recens), which seems to have
connected the region of the via Flaminia and forum with the Tarentum.
The pavement of an ancient street leading in this general direction has
been found at various points in the Vie di Pescheria, del Pianto, de’
Giubbonari, de’ Cappellari, and del Banco di S. Spirito, and on the same
line as the fragments of the Porticus Maximae (q.v.). It is possible
that this was the via Tecta, so called because it was protected by some
sort of a colonnade before the porticus Maximae were built (HJ 485 ;
KH iii.).1 The name Via Recta, which some authorities apply to the
road going east from the pons Aelius to the via Flaminia (LF 14), is due to
a wrong reading of the first passage (HJ 503, n. 78).
Via Tecta (2) : the name of a street outside the porta Capena, found
only in Ovid (Fast. vi. 191-192 : lux eadem Marti festa est, quem prospicit
extra oppositum tectae porta Capena viae), and probably applied to
the via Appia between the porta Capena and the temple of Mars (q.v.)
because it was bordered by some kind of a colonnade (HJ 213 ; cf. above).
Via Tiburtina (Not. app. ; Eins. 6. 4) : the road which led to Tibur,
20 miles from Rome. It probably left the city by the porta Esquilina
of the Servian wall (for other theories, which made it pass through the
porta Viminalis, see LF 17, 18; PBS i. 139; iii. 85-86, though the
name Tiburtina vetus is not vouched for by any classical authority,
and is only retained for convenience). This would account for the
erection over it of the arch of Augustus (which later became the Porta
Tiburtina), whereas the straight road from the porta Viminalis passed
through a small postern (the so-called porta Chiusa) south-east of the
castra Praetoria, which was closed at some unknown period (HJ 343 ,
367, 368). Beyond Tibur the road took the name of via Valeria as far
as Cerfennia. A group of milestones has been found at the thirty-sixth
mile (NS 1890, 160), and the forty-third milestone also exists in situ
(PAS i. 108-140).
1 In that case Claudius would have been led by Talthybius past the porticus Octaviae,
Philippi and Minucia frumentaria, along the via Tecta, and so to the ara Ditis in the
Tarentum.
568
not impossible that the name came from the fact that in 335-336 people
still remembered its having been closed by the construction of the
Aurelian wall. That the original road ran this way is unlikely. See
Jord. i. I. 430; T iii. 1-133 ; HJ 437; PBS iii. 7 sqq. ; Mitt. 1908,
275-329, 376; 1909, 121-169, 208-255; 1912, 221-229, 248; RE i. A.
1845, 2078 ; SR i. 353.
Via Tecta (i) : a street in the campus Martius, mentioned three times in
the literature of the first century (Seneca, Apoc. 13 : descendunt per
viam Sacram . . . inicit illi manum Talthybius . . . et trahit . . . per
campum Martium ; et inter Tiberim et viam Tectam descendit ad
inferos ; Mart. iii. 5. 5 ; viii. 75. 1,2: dum repetit sera conductos nocte
penates / Lingonus a tecta Flaminiaque recens), which seems to have
connected the region of the via Flaminia and forum with the Tarentum.
The pavement of an ancient street leading in this general direction has
been found at various points in the Vie di Pescheria, del Pianto, de’
Giubbonari, de’ Cappellari, and del Banco di S. Spirito, and on the same
line as the fragments of the Porticus Maximae (q.v.). It is possible
that this was the via Tecta, so called because it was protected by some
sort of a colonnade before the porticus Maximae were built (HJ 485 ;
KH iii.).1 The name Via Recta, which some authorities apply to the
road going east from the pons Aelius to the via Flaminia (LF 14), is due to
a wrong reading of the first passage (HJ 503, n. 78).
Via Tecta (2) : the name of a street outside the porta Capena, found
only in Ovid (Fast. vi. 191-192 : lux eadem Marti festa est, quem prospicit
extra oppositum tectae porta Capena viae), and probably applied to
the via Appia between the porta Capena and the temple of Mars (q.v.)
because it was bordered by some kind of a colonnade (HJ 213 ; cf. above).
Via Tiburtina (Not. app. ; Eins. 6. 4) : the road which led to Tibur,
20 miles from Rome. It probably left the city by the porta Esquilina
of the Servian wall (for other theories, which made it pass through the
porta Viminalis, see LF 17, 18; PBS i. 139; iii. 85-86, though the
name Tiburtina vetus is not vouched for by any classical authority,
and is only retained for convenience). This would account for the
erection over it of the arch of Augustus (which later became the Porta
Tiburtina), whereas the straight road from the porta Viminalis passed
through a small postern (the so-called porta Chiusa) south-east of the
castra Praetoria, which was closed at some unknown period (HJ 343 ,
367, 368). Beyond Tibur the road took the name of via Valeria as far
as Cerfennia. A group of milestones has been found at the thirty-sixth
mile (NS 1890, 160), and the forty-third milestone also exists in situ
(PAS i. 108-140).
1 In that case Claudius would have been led by Talthybius past the porticus Octaviae,
Philippi and Minucia frumentaria, along the via Tecta, and so to the ara Ditis in the
Tarentum.