Appii Forum
ap'-i-i fo'-rum, transliteration of Lat; APPIUS ap'-i-us,
MARKET OF (Revised Version) (Appiou phoron): Appi Forum
(Cicero ad Att. 2.10; Suetonius Tib. 2: Appii Forum; Vulgate
Revised Verson: Forum Appi; Horace Satires i.5; Pliny, Nat.
Hist., iii.64; xiv.61; CIL, X, 6824), or Market of Appius,
was a town situated at the forty-third milesto...
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(market-place of Appius), a well-known station on the Appian
Way, the great road which led from Rome to the neighborhood of
the Bay of Naples. Ac 28:15 There is no difficulty in
identifying the site with some ruins near Treponti. [THREE
TAVERNS]...
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i.e., "the market of Appius" (Acts 28:15, R.V.), a town on
the
road, the "Appian Way," from Rome to Brundusium. It
was 43 miles
from Rome. Here Paul was met by some Roman Christians
on his way
to the capital. It was natural that they should halt
here and
wait for him, because from this place there were two
ways by
which travellers might j...
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(Acts 28:15.) A stage 48 miles from Rome, on the Appian Way,
the road from Rome to the Bay of Naples. Here Christian
brethren from Rome met Paul. Called from Appius Claudius, who
constructed this part of the road. The site is still marked by
ruins near Treponti....
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And from thence, when the brethren heard of us, they came to
meet us as far as Appii forum, and The three taverns: whom
when Paul saw, he thanked God, and took courage....
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