Vada in A Sentence

    1

    Aemilius Scaurus from Vada Volaterrana and Luna to Vada Sabatia and thence over the Apennines to Dertona (Tortona), where it joined the Via Postumia from Genua to Cremona.

    2

    It lay on the road between Augusta Taurinorum and Vada Sabatia.

    3

    It ran from Rome to Alsium, where it reached the sea, and thence along the south-west coast of Italy, perhaps originally only as far as Cosa, and was later extended to Vada Volaterrana, and in 109 B.C. to Genua and Dertona by means of the Via Aemilia, though a coast road as far as Genua at least must have existed long before.

    4

    The place was never of importance in Roman times, the traffic passing to Vada Sabatia (Vado), 4 m.