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A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) 31 31 Browse Search
Diodorus Siculus, Library 2 2 Browse Search
Pausanias, Description of Greece 1 1 Browse Search
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 3-4 (ed. Benjamin Oliver Foster, Ph.D.) 1 1 Browse Search
Titus Livius (Livy), Ab Urbe Condita, books 31-34 (ed. Evan T. Sage, Ph.D. Professor of Latin and Head of the Department of Classics in the University of Pittsburgh) 1 1 Browse Search
Samuel Ball Platner, Thomas Ashby, A Topographical Dictionary of Ancient Rome 1 1 Browse Search
Knight's Mechanical Encyclopedia (ed. Knight) 1 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 15. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 1 1 Browse Search
M. Tullius Cicero, De Officiis: index (ed. Walter Miller) 1 1 Browse Search
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a Mohammedan mosque. Twenty-nine great military roads centered at Rome, some of them being carried to the extreme limits of the Empire, which was divided into 11 regions, 113 provinces, traversed by 372 great roads which, according to the Itinerary of Antoninus, had a length of 52,964 Roman miles. The first of these great roads was the Appian Way, constructed by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus, 442 A. U. C. (311 B. C.), who is not to be confounded with the decemvir Appius Claudius, 449 B. C., concerned in the tragedy of Virginia, the Roman maiden. The stones were hewn and carefully fitted. It was never excelled by the Romans. Appius constructed it to Capua, 142 miles, and his successors to Brundusium (now Brindisi), another 218 miles. Strabo (d. A. D. 24) gives it the preeminence. It is still entire in many places, though more than twenty centuries have elapsed since its construction It was properly called Regina Viarum. The Via Numicia led to Brundusium; the Via Flamin