Via Nomentana the Porta Nomentana in his new set of walls. Pope Pius IV decided to move the first stretch of the road and built the Porta Pia for this purpose. There are the remains of at least one Roman bridge along the road, which is the Ponte Nomentano. Via Nomentana Via Nomentana is an ancient road of Italy, leading North-East from Rome to Nomentum (modern Mentana), a distance of . It originally bore the name "Via Ficulensis", from the old Latin village of Ficulea, about from Rome. It was subsequently extended to Nomentum, but never became an important high road, and
Latin obscenity for urine was "ūrīna", which is attested in Latin as early as Cicero, and became the usual polite term. The relationship with the Greek verb ("oureō"), "to urinate", is not clear. In Classical Latin, however, the verb "ūrīnārī" meant "to dive into water", and "ūrīnātor" was "a diver", "ūrīnantēs" "those who dive". Catullus (37) writes contemptuously of a certain Spaniard who was one of the lovers of his girlfriend Lesbia: Another word for urine, but less commonly used, was "lōtium". This word relates to "lavāre", "to wash". The Romans, innocent of soap, collected urine as a source of ammonia to