Via Nomentana 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 merged in the Via Salaria a few kilometers beyond Nomentum. It is followed as far as Nomentum by the modern state road, but some traces of its pavement still exist. Originally starting from now-destroyed Porta Collina in the Servian Walls, in the third century emperor Aurelian build
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"