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All Roads Lead to Rome
List of various types of Roman Roads

• Agger - a built up pass, causeway

• Angiportus - alley, narrow street

• Callis - foot-path, pass, track

• Clivus - sloping street

• Crepido - pavement

• Iter - route, passage, walkway

• Limes - path between field, boundary-line, frontier line

• Pervium - thoroughfare

• Platea - street

• Semita - path

• Strata - road (for vehicles), street

• Trames - crossway, by-path, foot-path

• Via - highway

• Vicus - quarter of a city, city street

Sources:
Adkins and Adkins Handbook to Life in Ancient Rome
Lewis and Short A Latin Dictionary

See Peutinger Map.

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