CAECILIA, VIA, an ancient highroad of Italy, which di verged from the Via Salaria at the 35th m. from Rome, and ran by Amiternum to Interamna Praetuttiorum (Teramo) and thence to the sea at Castrum Novum (Giulianova), a distance of about 148m. from Rome. It was probably constructed by L. Caecilius Metellus Diadematus (consul in 117 B.c.).
See C. 'Nilsen in Notizie degli Scavi, 87 seq. (1896) ; N. Persichetti in Romische Mitteilungen (1898), 193 seq. (1902) 277 seq.