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
Escargot English of the French word "escargot" to mean "edible snail" dates from 1892. The French word (1549) derives from "escaragol" (Provençal) and thence "escargol" (Old French), and is ultimately – via Vulgar Latin "coculium" and Classical Latin "conchylium" – from the Ancient Greek "konchylion (κογχύλιον)", which meant "edible shellfish, oyster". The "Online Etymological Dictionary" writes, "The form of the word in Provençal and French seems to have been influenced by words related to "scarab"." Not all species of land snail are edible, and many are too small to make it worthwhile to prepare and cook them. Even among the edible