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 the indirect object is a full noun, and follows the direct object (which according to Devine and Stephens is the neutral word order): Unlike true enclitics, however, pronouns can also sometimes begin a sentence: As with the copula "est" (see above), when a focus phrase or emphatic delayed topic phrase intervenes, the weak pronoun will usually follow that, rather than the first word of the sentence: However, sometimes the pronoun will be found in second position, leaving "est" to follow the focussed phrase: And in the following example, the pronoun follows not the focussed word, but the conjunction "si" "if":