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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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At first it must have appeared to Vitiges that the course he had expected Belisarius to pursue was actually being followed; for presently the imperialists began to move up the Flaminian Way.

From Ravenna, a Study by Hutton, Edward

Concerning prices along the Flaminian Way 470 13.

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

He himself attended to the Flaminian Way, since he was going to lead an army out by that route.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Foster, Herbert Baldwin

There were casinos and wine houses on the slopes of Monte Mario—whose summit was occupied even at that time by a villa belonging to the Mellini—and on the hills beyond the Flaminian Way.

From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Gregorovius, Ferdinand

The Imperial generals pressed northwards along the Flaminian Way.

From Theodoric the Goth Barbarian Champion of Civilisation by Hodgkin, Thomas

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