AEMILIA VIA, or AEMILIAN WAY  . (I) A highroad of See also:

• ITALY
• ITALY (Italia)

Italy, constructed in 187 B.C. by the See also:

• CONSUL
• CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)

consul M . See also:

• AEMILIUS, PAULUS (PAOLO Ea111.io) (d. 1529)

Aemilius See also:

• LEPIDUS

Lepidus, from whom it takes its name; it ran from See also:

• ARIMINUM (mod. Rimini)

Ariminum to Placentia, a distance of 176 m. almost straight N.W., with the See also:

• PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

plain of the Po (Padus) and its tributaries on the right, and the See also:

• APENNINES (Gr. 'A1T- vvLvos, Lat. Appenninus—in both cases used in the singular)

Apennines on the See also:

• LEFT

left . The 79th milestone from Ariminum found in the See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed of the Rhenus at See also:

• BONONIA (mod. Bologna)

Bononia reccirds the restoration of the road by See also:

• AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

Augustus from Ariminum to the See also:

• RIVER

river See also:

• TREBIA (mod. Trebbia)

Trebia in 2 B.C . (Notiz . Scay., 1902, 539) . The See also:

• BRIDGE

bridge by which it crossed the Sillaro was restored by See also:

• TRAJAN [MARCUS ULPIUS TRAJANUS] (A. D. 53-117)

Trajan in A.D . 100 (Notizie degli Scavi, 1888, 621) . The See also:

• MODERN

modern highroad follows the See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient See also:

• LINE

line, and some of the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original See also:

• BRIDGES
• BRIDGES, ROBERT (1844– )

bridges still exist . After Augustus, the road gave its name to the See also:

• DISTRICT

district which formed the eighth region of Italy (previously known as Gallia or Provincia Ariminum), at first in popular usage (as in See also:

• MARTIAL (MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS)

Martial), but in See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official See also:

• LANGUAGE (adapted from the Fr. langage, from langue, tongue, Lat. lingua)

language as See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early as the 2nd See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century; it is still in use (see See also:

• EMILIA

EMILIA) . The district was bounded on the N. by the Padus, E. by the Adriatic, S. by the river Crustumium (mod . See also:

• CONCA, SEBASTIANO (1679-1764)

Conca), and W. by the Apennines and the Ira (mod .

Staffora) at Iria (mod . See also:

• VOGHERA (anc. Iria)

Voghera), and corresponds approximately with the- modern district . (2) A road constructed in iog B.C. by the See also:

• CENSOR (from Lat. censere, assess, estimate; in Gr. rt s ris)

censor M . Aemilius See also:

• SCAURUS, MARCUS AEMILIUS (c. 163-88 B.C.)
• SCAURUS, QUINTUS TERENTIUS

Scaurus from Vada Volaterrana and See also:

• LUNA (mod. Luni)
• LUNA, ALVARO DE (d. 1453)

Luna to Vada Sabatia and thence over the Apennines to Dertona (See also:

• TORTONA (anc. Dertona)

Tortona), where it joined the VIa . See also:

• POSTUMIA, VIA

Postumia from Genua to See also:

• CREMONA
• CREMONA, LUIGI (1830-1903)

Cremona . We must, however (as See also:

• MOMMSEN, THEODOR (1817–1903)

Mommsen points out in C.I.L. v. p . 885), suppose that the portion of the See also:

• COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast road from Vada Volaterrana to Genua at least must have existed before the construction of the Via Postumia in 148 B.C . Indeed See also:

• POLYBIUS (c. 204–122 B.C.)

Polybius (iii . 39 . 8) tells us (and this must refer to the See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time of the Gracchi if not earlier) that the See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans had in his time built the coast road from the See also:

• RHONE
• RHONE (Fr. Rhone, Lat. Rhodanus)

Rhone to Carthago Nova; and it is incredible that the coast road in Italy itself should not have been constructed previously . It is, how-ever, a very different thing to open a road for See also:

• TRAFFIC

traffic, and so to construct it that it takes its name from that construction in See also:

• PERPETUITY (Lat. perpetuus, continuous)

perpetuity . (T .