Via Latina Via Latina The Via Latina (Latin for "Latin Road") was a Roman road of Italy, running southeast from Rome for about 200 kilometers. It led from the Porta Latina in the Aurelian walls of Rome to the pass of Mount Algidus; it was important in the early military history of Rome. It must have preceded the Via Appia as a route to Campania, in as much as the Latin colony at Cales was founded in 334 BC and must have been accessible from Rome by road, whereas the Via Appia was made only twenty-two years later. It follows, too, a
Latin word order emphatic one such as "omnis" "all": This also applies when a participle is used instead of an adjective: The orders Adjective-Noun-Genitive and Adjective-Genitive-Noun are both common in Caesar and Cicero; but Genitive-Adjective-Noun is infrequent. There are certain words that are enclitic, that is to say, they always follow a stronger word. Typical of these are "enim" "for", "autem" "however, moreover", and "vero" "indeed", which virtually always come after the first full word of the sentence (not counting prepositions), never first. Other words which require a stronger word to lean on are "quoque" "also" and "quidem" "indeed". These can never begin