The Collaborative International Dictionary
Appian \Ap"pi*an\,
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[L. Appius, Appianus.] Of or pertaining to Appius.
Appian Way, the great paved highway from ancient Rome trough Capua to Brundisium, now Brindisi, constructed partly by Appius Claudius, about 312
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
road between Rome and Capua, so called because it was begun (302 B.C.E.) by the consul Appius Claudius Caecus.
Wikipedia
The Appian Way ( Latin and Italian: Via Appia) was one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic. It connected Rome to Brindisi, in southeast Italy. Its importance is indicated by its common name, recorded by Statius:
Appia longarum... regina viarum "the Appian Way the queen of the long roads"The road is named after Appius Claudius Caecus, the Roman censor who began and completed the first section as a military road to the south in 312 BC during the Samnite Wars.
Appian Way was one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic.
Appian Way may refer to:
- Appian Way, Burwood
- Appian Way Productions
Usage examples of "appian way".
And if you think I could get from a classroom in Siena to the Appian Way in under two hours, you have a higher estimation of my poor old car than it deserves.
This was a modern district of residences, shops, and businesses, just off the Via Cristoforo Colombo, a broad, traffic-heavy avenue that snaked south from the center of Rome, running roughly parallel to the ancient Appian Way.
Due north beyond Cisterna and on the far side of the Appian Way were the first ridges of the mountains.
The monk s aid that angels came and liberated Peter from prison by night, and he started away from Rome by the Appian Way.
Old Crassus had been right when he had six thousand slaves crucified along the Appian Way from Capua to Rome.
The squad of Marines landed just off the Appian Way, and quickly they took up positions.
There were few torches along the Appian way at this point, and it was hoped that the Romans nearest to the fallen guards would simply see a figure there in the dusk.
In their course along the Appian way, they pillaged Fundi and besieged Gayeta.
After the Romans put down the slave revolt led by Spartacus, he said, they crucified 6,000 of the rebels on either side of the Appian Way!
It said that at the end of the revolt they had crucified six thousand surviving slaves all along the Appian Way.
The road which the carriage now traversed was the ancient Appian Way, and bordered with tombs.
So young Sergeant Casella had ventured nervously down the Appian Way, the ancient road that led south out of Rome.