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SALARIA  , an ancient highroad of Italy, which ran from Rome by Reate and Asculum to Castrum Truentinum (Porto d'Ascoli) on the Adriatic coast, a distance of 151 m . Its first portion must be of early origin, and was the route by which the Sabines came to fetch salt from the marshes at the mouth of the Tiber . Of its course through the Apennines considerable remains exist . See T . Ashby in Papers of the British School at Rome, iii . 3-38; N . Persichetti, Viaggio archeologico sully Via Salaria nel Circondario di Cittaducale (Rome, 1893) ; and in Romische Mitteilungen (1903), 276 seq .