VIA NOMENTANA
(Not. app.; Eins. 3. 8) :
a road which diverged immediately outside the
PORTA COLLINA from the via Salaria and soon passed
through the porta Nomentana of the Aurelian wall. It originally led to
Ficulea (
Liv. iii. 52 calls it via Ficulensis) and was then prolonged to
Nomentum, 14 miles from Rome, and a prolongation of it joined the
via Salaria at the twenty-sixth milestone. It was a road of purely local importance. No milestones of it have been found, and only two inscriptions
of its curatores who were of equestrian rank (
CIL iii. 6098 =Suppl. 727 ;
EE. v. 194;
CIL xiv. 3955;
BC 1891, 129-130). Brickfields were
situated on it (
CIL xv. 677-682), and there are still some near the bridge
over the Anio. See Jord. i. I. 221 ;
T. iii. 1-35 ;
SR i. 351;
PBS iii. 38-84.