place
Forum Appi
Forum of Appius
also: Forum Appi, Appi Foro, Forum of Appius
A market town and posting-station on the Appian Way about 43 miles south of Rome, at the edge of the Pomptine Marshes; founded by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus. A regular stage on Cicero's journeys to and from Latium (Att 2.10).
Reading notes
- Ad Atticum 2.10 §1 From the Forum of Appius
Forum Appi, a way-station and market town on the Appian Way some 43 miles south of Rome, founded by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus. Cicero notes the place and hour of dispatch, as travellers did.