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See also:FORUM APPII , an See also:ancient See also:post station on the Via See also:Appia, 43 M . S.E. of See also:Rome, founded, no doubt, by the See also:original constructor of the road . See also:Horace mentions it as the usual See also:halt at the end of the first See also:day's See also:journey from Rome, and describes it as full of boatmen and See also:cheating innkeepers . The presence of the former was due to the fact that it was the starting-point of a See also:canal which ran parallel to the road through the Pomptine Marshes, and was used instead of it at the See also:time of See also:Strabo and Horace (see APPIA, VIA) . It is mentioned also as a halting See also:place in the See also:account of See also:Paul's journey to Rome (Acts See also:xxviii . 15) . Under See also:Nerva and See also:Trajan the road was repaired; one inscription records expressly the paving with silex (replacing the former gravelling) of the See also:section from Tripontium, 4 M . N.W., to See also:Forum Appii; the See also:bridge near Tripontium was similarly repaired, and that at Forum Appii, though it bears no inscription, is of the same See also:style . Only scanty See also:relics of antiquity have been found here; a post station was placed here by See also:Pius VI. when the Via Appia was reconstructed . (T . |
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