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CASSIA, VIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 458 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CASSIA, VIA , an See also:ancient high-road of See also:Italy, leading from See also:Rome through See also:Etruria to Florentia (See also:Florence); at the 11th mile the Via See also:Clodia (see CLODIA, VIA) diverged See also:north-north-See also:west, while the Via Cassia ran to the See also:east of the Lacus Sabatinus and then through the See also:place now called Sette Vene, where a road, probably the Via Annia, branched off to See also:Falerii, through Sutrium (where the Via Ciminia, See also:running along the east edge of the Lacus Ciminius, diverged from it, to rejoin it at See also:Aquae Passeris, north of the See also:modern See also:Viterbo 1), See also:Forum Cassii, See also:Volsinii, See also:Clusium and See also:Arretium, its See also:line being closely followed by the modern high-road from Rome to Florence. The date of its construction is uncertain: it cannot have been earlier than 187 B.c.,2 when the See also:consul C. See also:Flaminius constructed a road from See also:Bononia to Arretium (which must have coincided with the portion of the later Via Cassia). It is not, it is true, mentioned by any ancient authorities before the See also:time of See also:Cicero, who in 45 B.C. speaks of the existence of three roads from Rome to Mutina, the See also:Flaminia, the See also:Aurelia and the Cassia. A milestone of A.D. 124 mentions See also:repairs to the road made by See also:Hadrian from the boundary of the territory of Clusium to Florence, a distance of 86 m. See Ch. Hulsen in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie, iii. 1669. (T.

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