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
Vulgar Latin many changes happened. For example, the of "ego" was lost by the end of the empire, and "eo" appears in manuscripts from the 6th century. Classical Latin had a number of different suffixes that made adverbs from adjectives: ', "dear", formed ', "dearly"; ', "fiercely", from '; ', "often", from '. All of these derivational suffixes were lost in Vulgar Latin, where adverbs were invariably formed by a feminine ablative form modifying ', which was originally the ablative of "mēns", and so meant "with a ... mind". So ' ("quick") instead of "" ("quickly") gave "veloci mente" (originally "with a