Appian Way : highway from Rome to Greece & the East, built in 312 BC under Appius Claudius Caccus.
... monotone. That kind of melodic fixity is permissible in very short dactylic pieces, but the hexameter does not move at ease in a short range: it has fluted in the pastoral grove and walked on the Appian way, but it loves better the free sky and the winds of the ocean; it finds its natural self in the wide plain, on high mountains or in the surge and roll of a long venturous voyage. If the difficulty ...
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