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 word order about 46% of cases), but this is rarer in Cicero (only 10% of cases). Several scholars have examined Latin sentences from a syntactic point of view, in particular the position of the verb. In sentences with Subject, Object, and Verb, any order is possible. However, some orders are more common than others. In a sample of 568 sentences of Caesar containing all three elements examined by Pinkster, the proportions were: An example of the typical Subject-Object-Verb (SOV) word order in Caesar is: A dependent infinitive, such as "interfici" "to be killed" below, also in Caesar usually precedes its verb: However,