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NOMENTANA, VIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 735 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NOMENTANA, VIA , an See also:ancient road of See also:Italy, leading N.E. from See also:Rome to See also:Nomentum (q.v.), a distance of 14 M. It originally See also:bore the name Via Ficulensis, from the old Latin See also:village of Ficulea, about 8 m. from Rome. It was subsequently prolonged to Nomentum, but never became an important highroad, and merged in the Via See also:Salaria (see SAI,AIZIA, VIA) a few See also:miles beyond Nomentum. It is followed as far as Nomentum by the See also:modern highroad, but some traces of its See also:pavement still exist. See T. See also:Ashby in Papers of Brit. School at Rome, iii. 38 sqq. (T.

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