Milestones divided the via Appia even before 250 BC into numbered miles, and most viae after 124 BC.

Outside of Rome the new via Appia went through well-to-do suburbs along the via Norba, the ancient track to the Alban hills, where Norba was situated.

The via Appia picked up the coastal road at Tarracina.

It must have been during this time that they extended the via Appia 35 miles beyond Capua past the Caudine forks to a place the Samnites called Maloenton, " passage of the flocks ".

Rather than pursue them, Pyrrhus went straight for Rome along the via Appia and then the via Latina.

He knew that if he continued on the via Appia he could be trapped in the marsh.

The Romans pushed the via Appia to the port of Brundisium in 264 BC.

The emperor Trajan built the Via Traiana, an extension of the Via Appia from Beneventum, reaching Brundisium via Canusium and Barium rather than via Tarentum.

They intended to move along the line of the via Appia to take Rome, outflanking Monte Cassino, but they did not do so quickly enough.

The Germans counterattacked down the via Appia from the Alban hills in a front four miles wide, but could not retake Anzio.

These are found along the via Appia, and were built at the end of 2nd century.

In the Roman Empire, these were often ranged in necropoles or along roadsides: the via Appia Antica retains the ruins of many private mausolea for miles outside Rome.

* Porta Capena – this was the gate through which the via Appia left Rome to southern Italy after separating from the via Latina.

Romæ, in cymiterio Callisti, via Appia, depositio Miltiadis episcopi ".

A stock transaction for less than a hundred shares is executed via a special odd-lot broker on the floor of the exchange.

On review the Supreme Court, via Mr. Justice Frankfurter, found southern racial problems `` a sensitive area of social policy on which the federal courts ought not to enter unless no alternative to adjudication is open ''.

`` The white colonnaded, cedar-roofed Southern mansion is directly traceable via the grey and buff stone of grey-skied England to the golden stucco of one particular part of the blue South, the Palladian orbit stretching out from Vicenza: the old mind of Andrea Palladio still smiles from behind many an old rocking chair on a Southern porch, the deep friezes of his architectonic music rise firm above the shallower freeze in the kitchen, his feeling for light and shade brings a glitter from a tall mint julep, his sense of columns framing the warm velvet night has brought together a million couple of mating lips ''.

Then the arithmetic mean is defined via the equation

Their job is to filter the blood of metabolic waste and transport the urine via ureters to the urinary bladder where it is stored before being passed out periodically through the cloacal vent.

The earliest known alphabet in the wider sense is the Wadi el-Hol script, believed to be an abjad, which through its successor Phoenician is the ancestor of modern alphabets, including Arabic, Greek, Latin ( via the Old Italic alphabet ), Cyrillic ( via the Greek alphabet ) and Hebrew ( via Aramaic ).

As a result of having an actuator controlled precisely with air pressure via a servosystem, the movement is very fluid and there is very little noise.

An example of a digital remote telescope operation for public use via the Internet is the The Bareket Observatory.

The standard ampere is most accurately realized using a watt balance, but is in practice maintained via Ohm's Law from the units of electromotive force and resistance, the volt and the ohm, since the latter two can be tied to physical phenomena that are relatively easy to reproduce, the Josephson junction and the quantum Hall effect, respectively.

The name in the Hindu zodiac is likewise kumbha " water-pitcher ", showing that the zodiac reached India via Greek intermediaries.

The second longest-lived isotope of astatine, astatine-211, is the only one currently having any commercial application, being employed in medicine to diagnose and treat some diseases via its emission of alpha particles ( helium-4 nuclei ).

Since the evolution of the Aramaic alphabet out of the Phoenician one was a gradual process, the division of the world's alphabets into those derived from the Phoenician one directly and those derived from Phoenician via Aramaic is somewhat artificial.

Amplitude modulation ( AM ) is a technique used in electronic communication, most commonly for transmitting information via a radio carrier wave.

Mass production via assembly lines is widely considered to be the catalyst which initiated the modern consumer culture by making possible low unit cost for manufactured goods.

Abalone ( or ; via Spanish, from the ), is a common name for any of a group of small to very large edible sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Haliotidae.

Much of the transportation of passengers is done via aircraft.

However, there is one railroad that connects Chile with Argentina via the Andes, and there are others that make the same connection via southern Bolivia.

During the festival, a procession ( believed to be depicted on the Parthenon frieze ) traveled through the city via the Panathenaic Way and culminated on the Acropolis.

Although bongos are quite easy for humans to catch via snares ; it is of interest that many people native to the bongos habitat believed that if they ate or touched bongo they would have spasms similar to epileptic seizures.

Uptake of extracellular molecules is also believed to be specifically mediated via receptors in caveolae.

Fantastic stories ( supposedly believed as factual within fringe circles ) have also circulated that Adolf Hitler and some of his followers escaped to hollow lands within the Earth after World War II via an entrance in Antarctica.

The Christian historian Socrates Scholasticus was of the opinion that Julian believed himself to be Alexander the Great " in another body " via transmigration of souls, " in accordance with the teachings of Pythagoras and Plato ".

Whether through individuals, corporations or advocacy groups, such donations are often believed to engender a cronyist or patronage system via which major contributors are rewarded on a more or less quid pro quo basis.

The name " topaz " is derived ( via Old French: Topace and Latin: Topazus ) from the Greek Τοπάζιος ( Τοpáziοs ) or Τοπάζιον ( Τοpáziοn ), the ancient name of St. John's Island in the Red Sea which was difficult to find and from which a yellow stone ( now believed to be chrysolite: yellowish olivine ) was mined in ancient times ; topaz itself ( rather than topazios ) wasn not really known about before the classical era.

Orcas regularly attack walrus, although walruses are believed to have successfully defended themselves via counterattack against the larger cetacean.

Galen believed the arterial blood was created by venous blood passing from the left ventricle to the right through ' pores ' in the interventricular septum, while air passed from the lungs via the pulmonary artery to the left side of the heart.

He believed he could launch a viable attack from where he was and hit the Confederates in the rear, but decided to countermarch his troops back along the same route and via a circuitous path direct to the bridge crossing Snake and Owl Creeks.

The Celts were famous chariot makers, and the English word car is believed to be derived, via Latin carrum, from Gaulish karros ( the English chariot is derived from the 13th century French charriote ).

The publication noted that " Ratu " now believed to have settled in " Vereta " in tailevu, came via the " Rogovoka " settling first in the islands in the East than moved toward Viti-Levu with descendants and journers moving inland and around the north and south-west coast.

It was believed, by Alcamaeon and others, that this fluid was the medium of vision and flowed from the eye to the brain via a tube.

Galen believed that the arterial blood was created by venous blood passing from the left ventricle to the right by passing through ' pores ' in the interventricular septum, air passed from the lungs via the pulmonary artery to the left side of the heart.

Eclipse is believed to have passed the trait on via his daughters, and pedigree research verified that Secretariat traces in his dam line to a daughter of Eclipse.

While it had been believed that hummingbirds drink via capillary action, high-speed photography has revealed that the hummingbird's tongue ’ s tubes open down their sides, and close around nectar.

* Nietzscheans, a group of superior humans who believed in self-improvement via genetic engineering and intense competition.

This was followed by The Danube in Prehistory ( 1929 ), in which Childe examined the archaeology along the Danube river, recognising it as the natural boundary dividing the Near East from Europe, and subsequently he believed that it was via the Danube that various new technologies travelled westward in antiquity.

The Moerae, enraged by the fact that a mortal was able to deceive them, changed Galinthias into a weasel, an animal that in ancient times was believed to conceive through the ear and give birth through the mouth via the curse of the scorned deities.

The magnetic fields present in astrophysical objects ( required for the instability to occur ) are believed to be generated via dynamo action.

For many decades, heraldic authors have believed that the term may have arisen from the Persian word gol " rose " ( coming to Europe via Muslim Spain or brought back by returning Crusaders ), but according to Brault there is no evidence to support this derivation.