THREE TAVERNS (Τρέῖς Ταβέρναι, Three Shops). The name is a mistranslation of the Lat. designation of a staging post on the Via Appia, thirty-three m. from Rome. It should be rendered “Three Shops.” It stands at the junction of the Appian Way and the sideroad to Antium, near the modern town of Cisterna. It owed its importance to the fact that it was one day’s journey from Rome for fast travelers proceeding S from the city to Brundisium, the port for Greece and intermediate places (Acts 28:15; Cicero, Ad Att. 2:12). Representatives of the Rom. Christian community met Paul’s party here.