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 VIA AEMILIA. place soon after the complete subjugation of the Transpadaiie Gauls. Nor do we know with any certainty whether the name of Via Aemilia was ever applied in common usage to this portion of the road, or to the branches that led from Mediolanum to the foot of the Alps, as well as from that city by Verona to Patavium. But as Strabo distinctly applies the name to the branch that led by Patavium to Aqui- leia, we may here most conveniently include all the principal highroads of the N. of Italy under one view in the present article. 1. The main or trunk line of the Via Aemilia from Ariminum to Placentia. The stations on this road are thus given in the Antonine Itinerary, where they are repeated more than once (pp. 99, 126, 287); and, from the direct line of the road, the distances are subject to no doubt : — From Ariminum (^Rimini) to Caesena (Cese?w) - - - ' xx. m. p. Faventia {^Faenza) - - - xxiv. Forum Cornelii (Iinola) - - x. Bononia {Bologna) - - - xxiv. Mutina {Modend) - . - xxv. Regium (^Reggio) - - - - xvii. Parma {Parma) - - - - xviii. F''identiola {Borgo S. Donino) xv. Placentia {Piacenza) - - - xxiv. The same line is given more in detail in the Jeru- salem Itinerary (p. 61.5, &c.), with which the Tabula substantially agrees; but the distances are more correctly given in the latter. The stations enumerated are: — Competu (/. n.) Ad Com- fluentes (r«6.) ... xii. M. P. Caesena (Ce«ena) - - - - viii. Forum Populii {Forlimpopoli) vii. Forum Livii {Forli) - - - vii. Faventia {Faenza) - - - x. Forum Cornelii {Iinola) - - x. Claterna {Quaderna) - - xiv. Bononia {Bologna) - - - x. Forum Gallorum - - - - xvii. Mutina {Modena) - - . viii. Eegium {Reggio) - - - xvii. Tannetum {Taneto) - - - xi. Parma {Parma) - - - - vii. Fidentia ( Borgo S. Donino) xv. Florentia {Firenzuola) - - x. Placentia {Piacenza) - - - xv. The general agreement in the distances above given (which are those of the Tabula) with those of the Antonine Itinerary, though the division is different, sufficiently shows the accuracy of the two. The dis- tances in the Jerusalem Itinerary are, for this line of route, generally less accurate. Some obscure Jluta- tiones mentioned in the one document, and not in the other, have been omitted in the above list. 2. Continuation of the Via Aemilia from Placentia to Blediolanum. This line is summarily given in the Antonine Itinerary thus: — From Placentia to Laus Pompeia {Lodi Vecchio) - xxiv. M. r. Thence to Mediolanum ( Milan) xvi. The same distances are thus divided in the Jeru- salem Itinerary: — Ad Kotas -- xi. M. p. Tres Tabemae - - - - v. Laus ---.__ viii. Ad Nonum . - . _ . vii. Mediolanum - vii. (ix. ?) The intermediate stations are unknown, and are VIA AEMILIA. Mutationes, 1287 places for expressly called mere changing horses. 3. From IMediolanum to Augusta Praetoria, at the foot of the Alps, the distances, as given in the Antonine Itinerary, are : — From Medicilanum to Novaria {Novara) -. . xsxiii. M.r. Vercellae {Vercelli) - - _ xvi. Eporedia {Ivrea) -. _ xxxiii. Vitricium {Verrez) - - . xxi. Augusta Praetoria {Aosta) - xxv. The same authority gives a circuitous line of route from Medi(jlanum to Vercellae (where it rejoins the preceding) by Ticinum {Pavia). . . sxii. m.f. Laumellum {Lomello) - - xxii. Vercellae ( Vercelli) - - - xxvi. 4. From Jlediolanum to Aquileia. The stations given in the Itineraries are as follows: — Med. to Argentia - - - - x. sr. p. Pons Aureoli {Pontiroh) x. Bergamum {Bergamo) - xiii. Brixia {Brescia) • - xxxviii.(xsxii.) Sirmio {Sermione) - xxii. Verona ( Verona) - - xxii. Vicentia {Vicenza) - - xxxiii. Patavium {Padova) - xxvii. (xxii.) Altinum {Altino) - - xxxiii. Concordia {Concordia) - xsxi. Aquileia {Aquileia) - xxxi. (In the above line of route the minor stations (Mutationes) given in the Jerusalem Itinerary are omitted. For an examination of them, and a careful comparison of all the Roman roads through Cisalpine Gaul, see Walckenaer, Geograpkie des Gaules, vol. iii. pp. 2—13.) .5. From Bononia to Aquileia. This is the road of which Strabo expressly speaks as a continuation of the Via Aemilia (v. p. 217), but it is probable that he did not mean to say that it branched off directly from Bononia ; at least the only line given in the Itineraries turns off from the main line of the Via Aemilia at Mutina, and thence proceeds to Vicus Seruinus (?) - - - xxiii. M. p. Vicus Varianus {Bariano, on the N. bank of the Po) - xx. Anneianum {Legnago?) - - xvii. Ateste {Este) - . - . - xx. Patavium {Padova). - - xxv. whence it followed the same line to Aquileia as that given above. Another line of road, which though more circuitous was probably more frequented, led from Mutina by Colicaria (an uncertain station) to Hostilia {Osliglia), where it crossed the I'adus, and thence direct to Verona (xxx. JI. P.). {Itin. Ant. p. 282.) 6. From Placentia to Dertona, where it commu- nicated with the road constructed by Aemilius Scau- rus across the Apennines to Vada Sabata. (Strab. v. p. 217.) The stations on this short line were: — From Placentia to Comillomagus-. - - - xxv. Ji. v. Iria ( Voghera) - - - - xvi. Dertona {Tortona) - - - x. The first station, Comillomagus, or Camiliomagus, as the name is written in the Tabula, is unknown, but must have been situated a short distance to the W. of Broni. 7. Lastly, a branch of the Via Aemilia led from Placentia to Ticinum {Pavia), whence it was car- ried westwards to Augusta Taurinorum {Turin) and 4 N 4