Flaminian Way: One of the oldest and most famous highways of ancient Rome. It extends in a direct line from Rome to Ariminum (Rimini) and was built by the censor Caius Flaminius in 220 B.C. Its superintendence was held to be so honorable an office that Augustus himself assumed it in 27 B.C., as Julius Caesar had been curator of the Appian Way. Augustus restored it through its entire extent in commemoration of which triumphal arches were erected to him over the road at Ariminum and at Rome.

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