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Flaminian Way

American  
[fluh-min-ee-uhn] / fləˈmɪn i ən /

noun

  1. an ancient Roman road extending N from Rome to what is now Rimini. 215 miles (345 km) long.


Flaminian Way British  
/ fləˈmɪnɪən /

noun

  1. Latin name: Via Flaminia.  an ancient road in Italy, extending north from Rome to Rimini: constructed in 220 bc by Gaius Flaminius. Length: over 322 km (200 miles)

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Flaminian Way, edict regulating prices upon the, xi.

From The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator by Hodgkin, Thomas

The ashes of Marius were taken out of his tomb on the Flaminian Way, the great North Road of Rome, and were thrown into the Anio.

From Roman life in the days of Cicero by Church, Alfred John

Up the Flaminian Way beyond this enclosure we go under a triumphal arch erected by the late Emperor Claudius to record his conquest of Britain, where he subdued "eleven kings" without Roman loss.

From Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul by Tucker, T. G. (Thomas George)

That ruin is the entrance to the tomb which Augustus built on the Flaminian Way for himself and his family.

From The Women of the Caesars by Ferrero, Guglielmo

Flaminius, Caius, a Roman tribune and consul, who constructed the Flaminian Way; perished at Lake Trasimene, where he was defeated by Hannibal in the Second Punic War, 217 B.C.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin

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