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CAECILIA, VIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 933 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CAECILIA, VIA , an See also:ancient highroad of See also:Italy, which diverged from the Via See also:Salaria at the 35th M. from See also:Rome, and ran by See also:Amiternum to the Adriatic See also:coast, passing probably by See also:Hadria. A See also:branch ran to Interamna Praetuttiorum (See also:Teramo) and thence probably to the See also:sea at Castrum Novum (Giulianova), a distance of about 151 M. from Rome. It was probably constructed by L. See also:Caecilius See also:Metellus Diadematus (See also:consul in 117 B.C.). See C. Hulsen in Notizie degli Scavi (1896), 87 seq. N. Persichetti in Romische Mitteilungen (1898), 193 seq.: (1902), 277 seq.

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