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AEMILIA VIA, or AEMILIAN WAY . (I) A highroad of See also: Italy, constructed in 187 B.C. by the See also: consul M
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Aemilius See also: Lepidus, from whom it takes its name; it ran from See also: Ariminum to Placentia, a distance of 176 m. almost straight N.W., with the plain of the Po (Padus) and its tributaries on the right, and the Apennines on the See also: left
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The 79th milestone from Ariminum found in the See also: bed of the Rhenus at See also: Bononia reccirds the restoration of the road by See also: Augustus from Ariminum to the See also: river See also: Trebia in 2 B.C
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(Notiz
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Scay., 1902, 539)
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The See also: bridge by which it crossed the Sillaro was restored by Trajan in A.D
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100 (Notizie degli Scavi, 1888, 621)
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The See also: modern highroad follows the See also: ancient See also: line, and some of the See also: original See also: bridges still exist
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After Augustus, the road gave its name to the See also: 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), but in official language as early as the 2nd century; it is still in use (see See also: EMILIA)
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The district was bounded on the N. by the Padus, E. by the Adriatic, S. by the river Crustumium (mod
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See also: Conca), and W. by the Apennines and the Ira (mod
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Staffora) at Iria (mod . See also: Voghera), and corresponds approximately with the- modern district
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(2) A road constructed in iog B.C. by the censor M
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Aemilius Scaurus from Vada Volaterrana and Luna to Vada Sabatia and thence over the Apennines to Dertona (See also: Tortona), where it joined
the VIa
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See also: Postumia from Genua to See also: Cremona
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We must, however (as See also: Mommsen points out in C.I.L. v. p
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885), suppose that the portion of the See also: coast road from Vada Volaterrana to Genua at least must have existed before the construction of the Via Postumia in 148 B.C
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Indeed See also: Polybius (iii
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39
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8) tells us (and this must refer to the See also: time of the Gracchi if not earlier) that the See also: Romans had in his time built the coast road from the Rhone to Carthago Nova; and it is incredible that the coast road in Italy itself should not have been constructed previously
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It is, how-ever, a very different thing to open a road for See also: traffic, and so to construct it that it takes its name from that construction in perpetuity
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