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TIBURTINA, VIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 932 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TIBURTINA, VIA , an See also:ancient road of See also:Italy, leading E.N.E. from See also:Rome to See also:Tibur, a distance of about 18 m. It must have come into existence, as a track at any See also:rate, during the See also:establishment of the Latin See also:League. Though it afterwards be-came an important thoroughfare, the first portion of it always retained its See also:original name, that of Via See also:Valeria (see VALERIA, VIA) being applied only to the portion of the road beyond Tibur. The road is in the See also:main followed by a See also:modern highroad. There is, however, a difficulty about the last portion of its course from the Albulae See also:Aquae (q.v.) to Tibur; whereas, according to the milestones and itineraries, it should be 20 m. from Rome to Tibur, it is impossible to make the distance more than 18 m. along any probable See also:line. See T. See also:Ashby in Papers of the See also:British School at Rome, iii. 84 sqq. (T.

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