Via Appia is regarded as the first modern what?
Via Latina modern highroad and railway. The two lines rejoined near the present railway station of Caianiello, and the road ran to Teanum and Cales, and so to Casilinum, where there was the crossing of the Volturno and the junction with the Via Appia. The distance from Rome to Casilinum was 129 Roman miles by the Via Appia, 135 Roman miles by the old Via Latina through Venafrum, 126 Roman miles by the shortcut past Rufrae (now Presenzano). Considerable remains of the road exist in the neighborhood of Rome; for the first 40 Roman miles, as far as Compitum Anagninum, it is
Aqua Appia 980 paces to the left, near the Via Collatina". The "ramus Augustae" ran an independent course of 6,380 paces to the "spes setus" where it joined the Appia. It is this point that Frontinus refers to as "Gemelli" (the Twins). Aqua Appia The Aqua Appia was the first Roman aqueduct, constructed in 312 BC by the co-censors Gaius Plautius Venox and Appius Claudius Caecus, the same Roman censor who also built the important Via Appia. The Appia fed the city with an estimated of water per day. Its source was said by Frontinus to be about 780 paces away from