Via Aemilia Scauri

The Roman road network. The Via Aemilia Scauri in gray-blue.

The Via Aemilia Scauri is a Roman road that Marcus Aemilius Scaurus the Elder crossed during his tenure as censor in 109 BC. Was commissioned.

It ran from Placentia (today Piacenza ) to the south over the Ligurian Apennines to Genoa , from there along the coast to the southeast to Luna ( Luni ) or Pisae ( Pisa ) - depending on whether the route between Luna and Pisae was still the Via Aemilia Scauri or already the Via Aurelia is included. The Via Aemilia Scauri connected the Via Aemilia and Via Postumia in the Po Valley with the Via Aurelia and the Via Cassia or the Via Clodia .

The coast road from Genoa to Vado Sabatia ( Vado Ligure ) in the southwest is also often assigned to the Via Aemilia Scauri . The continuation of this street is certainly the Via Julia Augusta , which was laid out under Emperor Augustus .

For the stretch along the coast (and its continuation, the Via Julia Augusta), the name Via Aurelia was also used in later times , as the extension of which this part of the Via Aemilia Scauri can be seen from Rome.

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Little Pauly : Lexikon der Antike edd. Konrat Ziegler , Walther Sontheimer (Artemis, 1975; DTV, 1979) sv "Viae publicae".