Road station
Via Hostensis
Via Hostensis is the Via Ostiensis, with an extra H, the road from Rome to its harbour town of Ostia at the mouth of the Tiber, sixteen Roman miles long. It was probably laid out when the colony of Ostia was founded, in the fourth century BC, and left Rome by the gate beside the Pyramid of Cestius, today's Porta San Paolo. Its eleventh milestone survives, set up by two plebeian aediles in the later third century BC. By the sixth century the road was neglected, and Procopius describes it running through woodland.