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See also:CLODIA, VIA , an See also:ancient high-road of See also:Italy. Its course, for the first 11 m., was the same as that of the Via See also:Cassia; it then diverged to the N.N.W. and ran on the W. See also:side of the Lacus Sabatinus, past See also:Forum Clodii and See also:Blera. At Forum Cassii it may have rejoined the Via Cassia, and it seems to have taken the same See also:line as the latter as far as Florentia (See also:Florence). But beyond Florentia, between Luca (See also:Lucca) and See also:Luna, we find another Forum Clodii, and the Antonine Itinerary gives the route from Luca to See also:Rome as being by the Via Clodia—wrongly as regards the portion from Florentia southwards, but perhaps rightly as regards that from Luca to Florentia. In that See also:case the See also:Clodius whose name the road bears, possibly C. Clodius Vestalis (c. 43 B.c.), was responsible for the construction of the first portion and of that from Florentia to Luca (and Luna), and the founder of the two Fora Clodii. The name seems, in imperialtimes, to have to some extent driven out that of the Cassia, and both roads were administered, with other See also:minor roads, by the same See also:curator. See Ch. Hulsen in Pauly-Wissowa, Realencyclopadie, iv. 63; cf. CASSIA, VIA. (T. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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