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
Latin obscenity be related to the marriage deity Mutunus Tutunus. Although "mūtō" itself is rare, the derivative "mūtūniātus" ("well-endowed") is found twice in Martial, as at 3.73: The derivative "mūtōnium" is found in Lucilius and in two Pompeian graffiti. The Latin word "pēnis" itself originally meant "tail". Cicero's "ad Familiārēs", 9.22, observes that "pēnis" originally was an innocuous word, but that the meaning of male sexual organ had become primary by his day. The euphemism is used occasionally by Catullus, Persius, Juvenal, and Martial, and even once by the historian Sallust, who writes that the supporters of the anti-government rebel Catiline included