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Via Appia

the Appian Way

also: the Appian Way, Appia via

The great Roman road from Rome southward to Capua and beyond, the most prestigious highway of Italy; Cicero invokes it as the standard of orderly travel against the Asian roads.

Reading notes

Ad Atticum 16.10 §1 going straight up the Appian Way to Rome
The Via Appia, the great southern highway from Rome to Capua and Brundisium; travelling it directly would have risked Cicero overtaking, or being overtaken by, Antony.
Ad Atticum 16.13 §2 the Appian Way
The great southern Roman road from Rome to Capua and on to Brundisium; Cicero decodes Atticus's Homeric joke as advice on which route to keep to.
Ad Quintum Fratrem 1.1 §17 Appian Way
The Via Appia, Italy's most prestigious highway running south from Rome, stands as the benchmark of orderly travel: Quintus's slaves should behave on the Asian roads as if still on a public road in Italy.