APPIAN Way, in Antiquity, Via Appia, a celebrated Road, leading from the Porta Capena in Rome, to Brundusium, at the farthest Eastern Extremity of Italy. See ROAD and VIA. It took its Name from Appius Claudius, by whom it was made, during his Censorship, in the Year of Rome 441. It still subsists in many places; being paved, not with little Stones or Pebbles, like our Streets, but with large Flagstones, like the Pavements of our Churches.
