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LATINA, VIA

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LATINA, VIA , an See also:ancient highroad of See also:Italy, leading. S.E. from See also:Rome. It was probably one of the See also:oldest of See also:Roman roads, leading to the pass of Algidus, so important in the See also:early military See also:history of Rome; and it must have preceded the Via See also:Appia as a route to See also:Campania, inasmuch as the Latin See also:colony at Cales was founded in 334 B.C. and must have been accessible from Rome by road, whereas the Via Appia was only made twenty-two years later. It follows, too, a far more natural See also:line of communication, without the See also:engineering difficulties which the Via Appia had to encounter. As a through route it no doubt preceded the Via See also:Labicana (see LABICANA, VIA), though the latter may have been preferred in later times. After their junction, the Via Latina continued to follow the valley of the Trerus (Sacco), following the line taken by the See also:modern railway to See also:Naples, and passing below the Hernican See also:hill-towns, See also:Anagnia, Ferentinum, Frusino, &c. At See also:Fregellae it crossed the Liris, and then passed through Aquinum and See also:Casinum, both of them comparatively See also:low-lying towns. It then entered the See also:interval between the See also:Apennines and the volcanic See also:group of Rocca Monfina, and the See also:original road, instead of traversing it, turned abruptly N.E. over the mountains to See also:Venafrum, thus giving a See also:direct communication . with the interior of Samnium by roads to See also:Aesernia and See also:Telesia. In later times, however, there was in all See also:probability a See also:short cut by Rufrae along the line taken by the modern highroad and railway. The two lines rejoined near the See also:present railway station of Caianello and the road ran to Teanum and Cales, and so to See also:Casilinum, where was the See also:crossing of the Volturnus and the junction with the Via Appia. The distance from Rome to Casilinum was 129 M. by the Via Appia, 135 M. by the old Via Latina through Venafrum, 126 m. by the short cut by Rufrae. Considerable remains of the road exist in the neighbourhood of Rome; for the first 40 m., as far as Compitum Anagninum, it is not followed by any modern road; while farther on in its course it is in the See also:main identical with the modern high-road.

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Ashby in Papers of the See also:British School at Rome iv. 1 sq., v. 1 sq.

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