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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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Cethegus advised Johannes and Alboin, the one to send a portion of his men to the south-east, the other to the left on the Flaminian Way, to try to find the lost track.

From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Dahn, Felix

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

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

In the same neighbourhood lived Martial the epigrammatist, "on the third floor, in a narrow street," whence he had a view as far as the portico of Agrippa, near the Flaminian Way.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.

Furius Ahalla and his horsemen were posted in the narrow road, the "Flaminian Way."

From A Struggle for Rome, v. 3 by Dahn, Felix

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