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Appian Way : highway from Rome to Greece & the East, built in 312 BC under Appius Claudius Caccus.

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... 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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