VIA AURELIA
(Not. app.; Eins. 12. 3) :
the road which led from the pons
Aemilius across the low ground on the right bank of the Tiber (where
two arches of a viaduct belonging to it were found near S. Crisogono,
NS 1889, 362-364;
BC 1889, 476-477;
1890, 6-8, 57-65;
Mitt. 1891,
145-148; LF 20; KH ii.; HJ 627) up to the Janiculum (Mon.
L. i. 480),
where it passed through the Aurelian wall by the
PORTA AURELIA. This
would be the via Aurelia vetus; the nova ran south of the Leonine
wall (LF 12-14; KH iii.) and joined it at the Madonna del Riposo, ran
westward through undulating country until it reached the coast a little
to the south-east of Palidoro, some 20 miles from Rome, and then followed
it right up to Vada Volaterrana, whence it was prolonged to Genoa by
the via Aemilia.
Some inscriptions of the curatores speak of the via Aurelia vetus,
nova, the Cornelia, and the Triumphalis as being all united under one
administration (
CIL vi. 1512;
viii. 946;
xiv. 3610; CIG 2638 omits
the Cornelia),
1 while others mention the Aurelia only (ib. ii. 1283, 1371 ;
vi. 1462;
ix. 973, 1126;
EE iv. 425;
BC 1891, 95-100). The road
is mentioned on a gold glass inscription (
T. ix. 464) and on a brickstamp (
CIL xv. 676:
officina Vari Romani, quae est via Aurelia hor(tis)
[or hor(reis)] Popisci). (Jord. i. I. 376-380;
T. i. 104-193, 598-600;
ix. 463-547;
RE ii. 2430; M61. 1913, 171-192.)
