VIA TIBURTINA
(Not. app.; Eins. 6. 4):
the road which led to Tibur,
20 miles from Rome. It probably left the city by the porta Esquilina
of the Servian wall (for other theories, which made it pass through the
porta Viminalis, see LF 17, 18;
PBS i. 139;
iii. 85-86, though the
name Tiburtina vetus is not vouched for by any classical authority,
and is only retained for convenience). This would account for the
erection over it of the arch of Augustus (which later became the
PORTA
TIBURTINA), whereas the straight road from the porta Viminalis passed
through a small postern (the so-called porta Chiusa) south-east of the
castra Praetoria, which was closed at some unknown period (HJ 343,
367, 368). Beyond Tibur the road took the name of via Valeria as far
as Cerfennia. A group of milestones has been found at the thirty-sixth
mile (
NS 1890, 160), and the forty-third milestone also exists in situ
(
PAS i. 108-140).
The prolongation beyond Cerfennia was made by Claudius, as its
name, via Claudia Valeria, implies (
CR 1904, 187; Ml6. 1907, 462;
PBS ix. 75-106;
CIL ix. 5973).
The via Valeria is classed with the Appia and the Latina as one of
the
γνωπιμώταται τῶν ὁδῶν(
Strabo v. 3. 9). For its curatores, who
administered the whole road (being all later than Claudius), see
BC 1891, 112, 124-127;
CIL ix. 3667;
xiii. 1803;
BCH 1890, 644 (in which
both the Tiburtina and the Valeria are mentioned);
ii. 4126;
vi. 3844 1;
x. 3761;
xiv. 2933 (?)
2;
EE viii. 158a (Tiburtina only);
vi. 1517
(Valeria only). For the first part of the road, see Jord. i. I. 222, 359;
T. vii. 5-60;
PBS iii. 84-200, 208.