Appius Claudius, called the Blind, who was censor at Rome from 312 to 308 B. C. [see ROME: B. C. 312], constructed during that time "the Appian road, the queen of roads, because the Latin road, passing by Tusculum, and through the country of the Hernicans, was so much endangered, and had not yet been quite recovered by the Romans: the Appian road, passing by Terracina, Fundi and Mola, to Capua, was intended to be a shorter and safer one. ... The Appian road, even if Appius did carry it as far as Capua, was not executed by him with that splendour for which we still admire it in those parts which have not been destroyed intentionally: the closely joined polygons of basalt, which thousands of years have not been able to displace, are of a somewhat later origin. Appius commenced the road because there was actual need for it; in the year A. U. 457 [B. C. 297] peperino, and some years later basalt (silex) was first used for paving roads, and, at the beginning, only on the small distance from the Porta Capena to the temple of Mars, as we are distinctly told by Livy. Roads constructed according to artistic principles had previously existed." _B. G. Niebuhr, Lectures on the History of Rome. lecture 45._ ALSO IN: _Sir W. Gell, Topography of Rome, volume 1._ _H. G. Liddell, History of ROME, volume 1, page 251._ APPOMATTOX COURT HOUSE, Lee's Surrender at. See UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: A. D. 1865 (APRIL, VIRGINIA). APULEIAN LAW. See MAJESTAS. APULIA: A. D. 1042-1127. Norman conquest and Dukedom. Union with Sicily. See ITALY (SOUTHERN): A. D. 1000-1090, and 1081-1194. APULIANS, The. See SABINES; also, SAMNITES. AQUÆ SEXTIÆ. See SALYES. AQUÆ SEXTIÆ, Battle of. See CIMBRI AND TEUTONES: B. C. 113-102. AQUÆ SOLIS. The Roman name of the long famous watering-place known in modern England as the city of Bath. It was splendidly adorned in Roman times with temples and other edifices. _T. Wright, Celt, Roman and Saxon, chapter 5._ AQUIDAY, OR AQUETNET. The native name of Rhode Island. See RHODE ISLAND: A. D. 1638-1640. AQUILA, Battle of (1424). See ITALY: A. D. 1412-1447. AQUILEIA.