Via Vitularia
road · 330 BC – 30 BC · location approximate
The Via Vitularia was a Roman road that is now unlocated, but was originally located in the territory of Arpinum. Cicero mentions it in his correspondence. It likely led from Arpinum in the Italian interior to the Tyrrhenian coast. Its name is derived from the first-declension Latin noun vitula, -ae, meaning "heifer"; thus, the road's name may reflect its function, similar to the case of the Via Salaria, as Hodges points out in his commentary on Cicero's letters.
- Coordinates
- 41.64842, 13.60988
- Also known as
- Vitularia via (la)
- Dating
- attested
Sources
- Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)