| Municipalities, however, were responsible for their own roads, which the Romans called viae vicinales. |
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| In the country districts, as has been stated, the magistri pagorum had authority to maintain the viae vicinales. |
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| A road map of the empire reveals that it was generally laced with a dense network of prepared viae. |
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| Under the heading of viae privatae were also included roads leading from the public or high roads to particular estates or settlements. |
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| Features off the via were connected to the via by viae rusticae, or secondary roads. |
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| Such roads ran either into a high road, or into other viae vicinales, without any direct communication with a high road. |
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| With the conquest of Italy, prepared viae were extended from Rome and its vicinity to outlying municipalities, sometimes overlying earlier roads. |
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| Building viae was a military responsibility and thus came under the jurisdiction of a consul. |
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| In the early days of the viae, when little unofficial provision existed, houses placed near the road were required by law to offer hospitality on demand. |
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| The Viae glareatae were earthed roads with a graveled surface or a gravel subsurface and paving on top. |
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| Viae were distinguished not only according to their public or private character, but according to the materials employed and the methods followed in their construction. |
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