Via Latina Via Latina The Via Latina (Latin for "Latin Road") was a Roman road of Italy, running southeast from Rome for about 200 kilometers. It led from the Porta Latina in the Aurelian walls of Rome to the pass of Mount Algidus; it was important in the early military history of Rome. It must have preceded the Via Appia as a route to Campania, in as much as the Latin colony at Cales was founded in 334 BC and must have been accessible from Rome by road, whereas the Via Appia was made only twenty-two years later. It follows, too, a
Latin word order the indirect object is a full noun, and follows the direct object (which according to Devine and Stephens is the neutral word order): Unlike true enclitics, however, pronouns can also sometimes begin a sentence: As with the copula "est" (see above), when a focus phrase or emphatic delayed topic phrase intervenes, the weak pronoun will usually follow that, rather than the first word of the sentence: However, sometimes the pronoun will be found in second position, leaving "est" to follow the focussed phrase: And in the following example, the pronoun follows not the focussed word, but the conjunction "si" "if":