NOUN
- an ancient Roman road in Italy extending south from Rome to Brindisi; begun in 312 BC
How To Use Appian Way In A Sentence
- Arelate had a cemetery that compared favourably in the quality of its funerary monuments with the Appian Way.
- Finer and more ornamental varieties of volcanic stone were introduced from a distance, such as the _peperino_ or grayish-green tufa of the Alban Hills, the _Lapis Albanus_ of the ancients, with its glittering particles of mica interspersed throughout its mass; the hard basaltine lava from a quarry near the tomb of Cæcilia Metella, on the Appian Way, and from the bed of the Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
- Piranesi indulged this conceit to repletion in his fantasy rendering of the Appian Way, wherein an enormous, tightly packed heap of garish, ill-assorted temples and palaces stretches to the horizon. The Heirloom City
