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SEVERIANA, VIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 723 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SEVERIANA, VIA , an See also:ancient highroad of See also:Italy, See also:running S.E. from See also:Ostia to See also:Terracina, a distance of 73 in. along the See also:coast, and taking its name, no doubt, from the restoration of an already existing road by Septimius See also:Severus, who was a See also:great benefactor of Ostia. It ran along the See also:shore at first, just behind the See also:line of villas which fronted upon the See also:sea, and are now See also:half a mile inland, or even upon its edge (for an inscription records its being damaged by the waves). Farther S.E. it seems to have kept rather more distant from the shore, and it probably kept within the lagoons below the Circean promontory. As is natural in a sandy See also:district where See also:building materials are rare, remains of it are scanty. See R. Lanciani in Monumenti dei Lincei, xiii. (1903), 185; xvi. (1906), 241; T. See also:Ashby in Melanges de l'Ecole francaise de See also:Rome (1905), 157 sqq. (T.

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