C1940 a lone car on the Appian Way (Appia longarum) near the ruins of the Tempio di Ercoli (Temple of Hercules), near Rome, Italy. Connecting Rome to Brindisi it was is one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic and was named after Appius Claudius Caecus, the Roman censor who built the first section as a military road to the south during the Samnite Wars in 312 BC. .

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