Via Salaria Via Salaria The Via Salaria was an ancient Roman road in Italy. It eventually ran from Rome (from Porta Salaria of the Aurelian Walls) to "Castrum Truentinum" (Porto d'Ascoli) on the Adriatic coast, a distance of 242 km. The road also passed through Reate (Rieti) and Asculum (Ascoli Piceno). The Via Salaria owes its name to the Latin word for "salt", since it was the route by which the Sabines living nearer the Tyrrhenian sea came to fetch salt from the marshes at the mouth of the Tiber, the Campus Salinarum, while those nearer the Adriatic Sea used it to
White wagtail it still bears its original name of "Motacilla alba". The Latin genus name originally meant "little mover", but certain medieval writers thought it meant "wag-tail", giving rise to a new Latin word "cilla" for "tail". The specific epithet "alba" is Latin for "white". Within the wagtail genus "Motacilla", the white wagtail's closest genetic relatives appear to be other black-and-white wagtails such as the Japanese wagtail, "Motacilla grandis", and the white-browed wagtail, "Motacilla madaraspatensis" (and possibly the Mekong wagtail, "Motacilla samveasnae", the phylogenetic position of which is mysterious), with which it appears to form a superspecies. However, mtDNA cytochrome "b" and