ITINERARY (Lat. itinerarium, from iter, OLat. itiner, journey). The name given by the Romans to a table of the stopping-places between two places of importance, with the distances from one to another. The itineraries of the an cients contribute much to our acquaintance with ancient geography, and all seem to date from the later period of the Roman Empire. Of these the most important are the Itineraria Antonini and the ftinererium Hiero.solymitanum. The Itin eraria Antonini are two in number, the Itinerari um, Prosinciarum and the Itinerarium Mariti mum, the former containing the routes through the Roman provinces in Europe,Asia, and Africa; and the latter the principal routes of navigators, who then sailed mainly along the coasts. They take their name from Antoninus Caracalla, by whom they were first published, as corrected up to his time', but they seem to have been originally prepared at an earlier date. The Itinerarium Ilicrosolymitanum was drawn up A.D. 333. for the use of pilgrims from Burdig,ala (Bordeaux) to Jerusalem. Among other examples is the
Itinerarium Alexandri, in which the route of march of Alexander the Great is laid down. A collected edition of ancient ltineraria was pub lished in Paris in 18-15 by D'Urban. Besides, the Antonine and Jerusalem itineraries are edited by Parthey and Pinder (Berlin, 1847) ; the Alex andri by Volkmann (Naumburg, 1871) ; that of An Placentinus by Gildemeister (Berlin, 1889). The famous so-called Peutingerian. Table (q.v.) should be mentioned here—a traveler's map of all the great highways of the Roman Em pire. It exists in a manuscript of the thirteenth century, but was originally compiled in the third or fourth century A.D., and is published by Miller, Die 1T'eltkarte des Castorius (Ravensburg, 1888). At the mineral springs Aqua. Apollinares, near Vicarello, in Tuscany, were found four silver cups in the form of milestones, inscribed with lists of the stopping-places on the journey from Gades (Cadiz) to Rome.