Via ___ (used by Hannibal)

Usage examples of latina.

Via Latina and attack Rome the way Cinna and Marius descended upon her after I left for the east.

Via Latina and then the Via Flaminia, Norbanus could manage to move despite the snow, and soon reached Ariminum.

Alban Hills and rejoined the Via Latina at a place called Sacriportus.

April, Young Marius in high fettle moved his army out of camp and marched through the ancient pylons at Sacriportus onto the Via Latina, heading southeast toward Campania and Sulla.

No one offered him any advice as to the prudence of marching to meet Sulla rather than remaining where he was, and though he had traveled the Via Latina dozens of times, Young Marius did not have the kind of mind which remembered terrain or saw terrain in military terms.

Via Latina and the Via Appia were still open, still connected Rome and the north with Campania and the south.

South of the Alban Hills another high ridge continued to separate the Via Appia from the Via Latina, thus preventing interconnection between these two major arteries all the way from Campania to a point very near Rome.

Both roads traversed the outer flanks of the Alban Hills, but the Via Latina did so through a defile which chopped a gap in the eastern escarpment of the ridge and allowed the road to travel onward to Rome in the flatter space between this high ground and the Alban Mount itself.

He now occupied the only place on the Via Latina at which all progress could be stopped from both directions.

Sulla still owned the Via Latina, and those attacking from the north could find no way to join up with those attacking on the south.

Reports came in all through that day that the twenty thousand men belonging to Censorinus, Carrinas and Brutus Damasippus were marching down the Via Appia toward Campania, and that the Samnite host was marching down the Via Latina in the same direction.

Fregellae, and there moved off the Via Latina eastward through the Melfa Gorge.

Thinking that the only route open to the Samnites if they planned to attack Rome was the Via Appia, Sulla remained in his defile on the Via Latina and kept watch, sure he could not be taken by surprise.

The tawdry procession re-formed and weaved off through the gate down the common line of the Via Latina and the Via Appia, with half the people from the marketplace following and cheering.

It lay beyond the Circus Maximus, and outside it was the common highway which branched into the Via Appia and the Via Latina about half a mile from the gate.