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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 ancient road of Italy, leading N.E. from Rome to Nomentum (q.v.), a distance of 14 M . It originally
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bore the name Via Ficulensis, from the old Latin
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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
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Salaria (see SAI,AIZIA, VIA) a few miles beyond Nomentum . It is followed as far as Nomentum by the
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modern highroad, but some traces of its pavement still exist . See T . Ashby in Papers of Brit . School at Rome, iii . 38 sqq . (T .

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