Appĭus, ii, m., and Appĭa, ae, f. (abbrev. App.).
I A Roman praenomen , esp. of persons of the gens Claudia; hence,
II Appĭus , a, um, adj., Appian.
A Appia via, the Appian Way , a well-known high - road , begun by the censor Appius Claudius Caecus (about 442 A. U. C.), which began in Rome at the Porta Capena, and passed in a direct line to the Albanian Mountains, and thence through the Pontine Marshes to Capua; later it was continued to Brundisium, perh. by Trajan (the stones were large polygons of basaltic lava; parts here and there are yet in existence), Cic. Imp. Pomp. 18, 55; id. Mil. 6, 15; id. ad Q. Fr. 1, 1, 6; id. Phil. 7, 1, 1; Liv. 9, 29, 6; Front. Aquaed. 5; Inscr. Orell. 131; cf. Müll. Roms Camp. 2, 230.—Called also Appī via, Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 26; and simply Appia, id. Epod. 4, 14, al.; Cic. Att. 2, 12.—
B Appia aqua, the aqueduct which this same Appius constructed; Front. Aquaed. 5; cf. Liv. 9, 29. —
C Appii Forum, a small market-town in Latium , founded by the same Appius , on the left side of the Via Appia , in the midst of the Pontine Marshes , now Foro Appio , Hor. S. 1, 5, 3; Vulg. Act. 28, 15; cf. Mann. Ital. I. 637 and 638.