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 from the root "trityo-" ("third") and originally meant a third party. The two meanings of "testēs" open the door for puns such as the following from Martial (2.72): Or Cicero's "testīs ēgregiōs!" ("outstanding witnesses!") in his amusing account of two witnesses hiding naked in a public bathhouse. The diminutive "testiculī" was entirely confined to the anatomical sense; it is used 33 times by the medical writer Celsus, but "testis" not at all. The satirists Persius and Juvenal also used the word "testiculī". Veterinary writers use both "testis" and "testiculus". In Catullus (63.5), the testicles are famously referred to as "pondera"