Via Tiburtina Via Tiburtina Via Tiburtina is an ancient road in Italy leading east-northeast from Rome to Tivoli (Latin, Tibur) and then on to Pescara (Latin, Aternum). It was built by the Roman consul Marcus Valerius Maximus around 286 BC and later lengthened to the territories of the Marsi and the Aequi, in the Abruzzo, as Via Valeria. Its total length was approximately 200 km from Rome to Aternum (the modern Pescara). It exited Rome through the Aurelian Wall at the Porta Tiburtina, and through the Servian Wall at the Porta Esquilina. Historians assert that the Via Tiburtina must have come into
Latin obscenity later. "Merda" is productive in the Romance languages, and is the obvious etymon of French "merde", Spanish "mierda", and in Vegliot Dalmatian "miarda". It is preserved unaltered in Catalan, Galician, Italian, Portuguese, and Sardinian. It was preserved in Romanian too, not for feces, where "căcat" (derived from "caco") is used instead, but in the word "dezmierda", originally meaning "to clean the bottom of (an infant)"; subsequently becoming "to cuddle" or "to fondle". "Pēdō", "pēdere, pepēdī, pēditum" is the basic Latin word for passing intestinal wind. In the "Sermones" 1.8, 46, Horace writes: Christopher Smart translates this passage as "from my