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VIA NOMENTANA

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 735 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NOMENTANA  , an See also:ancient road of See also:Italy, leading N.E. from See also:Rome to See also:Nomentum (q.v.), a distance of 14 M . It originally See also:bore the name Via Ficulensis, from the old Latin See also:village of Ficulea, about 8 m. from Rome . It was subsequently prolonged to Nomentum, but never became an important highroad, and merged in the Via See also:Salaria (see SAI,AIZIA, VIA) a few See also:miles beyond Nomentum . It is followed as far as Nomentum by the See also:modern highroad, but some traces of its See also:pavement still exist . See T . See also:Ashby in Papers of Brit . School at Rome, iii . 38 sqq . (T .

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