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POPILIA (or POPILLIA), VIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 89 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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POPILIA (or POPILLIA), VIA , the name of two See also:ancient roads in See also:Italy. (1) A highroad See also:running from the Via See also:Appia at See also:Capua to See also:Regium, a distance of 321 M. right along the length of the See also:peninsula, and the See also:main road through the interior of the See also:country, not along the See also:coast. It was built in 159 B.C. by the See also:censor M. Popilius Laenias or in 132 B.C. by the See also:consul P. Popilius. (2) A highroad from See also:Ariminum to See also:Aquileia along the Adriatic coast. It no doubt originally came into use when Aquileia was founded As a frontier fortress of Italy in 181 B.C., and See also:Polybius gives the distance correctly as 178 m. In 132 it was reconstructed (munita) by the consul P. Popilius, one of whose milestones has been found near Atria. It ran along the See also:shore See also:strip (Lido) from Ariminum to See also:Ravenna (33 m.), where it was usual in imperial times for travellers to take See also:ship and go by See also:canal to See also:Altinum (q.v.), and there resume their See also:journey by road, though we find the stations right through on the Tabula Peutingeriana, and See also:Narses marched in 552 from Aquileia to Ravenna. (T.

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