Definition
milliares
noun
- Plural of milliare; Roman stone markers placed at intervals of one thousand paces along roads to indicate distance.
Usage: historical; archaic
Examples
- The ancient Roman road was lined with milliares to help travelers measure their progress.
- Archaeologists discovered several milliares along the Via Appia, each inscribed with distance measurements.
- The milliares served as both practical navigation aids and monuments to Roman engineering.
- Travelers in Roman times relied on milliares to know how far they had journeyed.