Via Tiburtina Via Tiburtina Via Tiburtina is an ancient road in Italy leading east-northeast from Rome to Tivoli (Latin, Tibur) and then on to Pescara (Latin, Aternum). It was built by the Roman consul Marcus Valerius Maximus around 286 BC and later lengthened to the territories of the Marsi and the Aequi, in the Abruzzo, as Via Valeria. Its total length was approximately 200 km from Rome to Aternum (the modern Pescara). It exited Rome through the Aurelian Wall at the Porta Tiburtina, and through the Servian Wall at the Porta Esquilina. Historians assert that the Via Tiburtina must have come into
Blue–green distinction in language that meant "marigold" a small and in fact yellow flower. The other word, "blu", refers to a darker shade of blue, and like many similar words across many European languages, derives ultimately from Germanic (see also: Italian "blu"). There is a separate word for green, "gjelbër", which derives from the Latin "galbinus", which originally meant "yellow"; the original Latin word for green on the other hand, "viridis", is the source of the Albanian word for "yellow", "verdhë". There are separate words for green ("zaļš") and blue ("zils") in Latvian. Both "zils" and "zaļš" stem from the same Proto-Indo-European word for