APPIUS, MARKET OF . A market-town (without city rights) on the Appian Way, 10 Roman miles from Tres Tabernœ (Three Taverns), near the modern railway station, Foro Appio. As the Appian Way was the main road from Rome to the south and east of the Roman Empire, it was traversed by nearly all travellers from or to those parts ( Acts 28:15 ).
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